502 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. 



lowifh florets occupy the difc of the flower, 

 which are tubular, quadrifid at the rim, and 

 barren : but the female florets are numerous 

 and fertile, very flender, bifid at the rim, and 

 grow between the fcales of the calyx. The feeds 

 ure all crowned with pappus or down, but fo 

 extremely fugacious as to pafs unregtarded by 

 "Linnaus, 

 The plant has a drying aftringent quality, the 

 powder and decodion of it have fometimes been 

 ufed with fucccfs in Diarrhseas and dyfenteries. 

 The farmers in Etigland ^trc accuftomed former- 

 ly to give it their cattle to reftore the faculty 

 of chewing their cud, whence it acquired the 

 Eiiglip name of cudweed. 



monta?m 2. FILAGO caule fubdichotomo eredo, floribus 

 conicis terminalibus axillaribufque. Syji, nat. 

 580. Sp.pl. 131 1. (Ger. cm. 641./. 9. Moris 

 hifi. f. 7. /. II. /. 3. Pet. herb. /. 18./. 11. 

 meiior.') 



Leaft cudweed. JngUs. 



Upon walls and other dry barren places. We ob- 

 ferved it in Strath-Tay, &c. o VII. VIII. 



The plant is five or fix inches high, cre^, and 

 covered with the like cotton down as the pre- 

 ceding. The leaves are numerous, linear, and 

 acute. The flowers grow from two to four in 

 a cluder, at the angles and extremitles| of the 

 branches. The calyx is pentagonal, furrow'd, 

 of a whitilh green colour, Ihining at the top, 



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