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11. (13.) FILA'GO Linn. Cudweed. 

 * Phyll. not spreading with the ripe fruit ;, in 2 rows. 



1. F. germariica (L.) ; cottony, st. proliferous at the summit, 

 \. lanceolate wavy acute, heads obscurely 5-angled half-sunk in 

 wool forming axillary and terminal clusters not surrounded and 

 overtopped by 1., phyll. longitudinally folded linear cuspidate 

 with glabrous points. E. B. 946. F. canescens Jord. Grey. 

 St. erect or ascending, 4 12 in. long, usually simple below, 

 bearing a solitary terminal cluster of heads, afterwards pro- 

 ducing from just below it 2 erect branches which are again 

 proliferous. Heads 20 40 in each cluster ; furrows obscure ; 

 1. nearest to the cluster much narrowed upwards and acute. 

 Tips of phyll. vellow, rarely reddish. Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. 



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2. F. apiculdta (G. E. Sm.) ; cottony, st. proliferous at the 

 summit, /. all oblong blunt apiculate, heads prominently 5-angled 

 half-sunk in wool forming lateral axillary and terminal clusters 

 surrounded and overtopped by 1 2 blunt L, phyll. boatshaped 

 cuspidate with glabrous points. Sy. E. B. 737. F. lutesoens 

 Jord. ! PI. nov. Fr. iii. t. 7. Greenish. Smelling like Tansy. 

 St. mostly erect, with short erect branches below. Heads 

 larger than in Sp. 1, 10 20 in a cluster ; furrows deep ; cluster 

 often seeming lateral from only 1 branch being produced just 

 below it ; 1. nearest to the cluster scarcely narrowed upwards, 

 blunt apiculate. Tips of phyll. purple. Sandy places. A. VII. 



viii. Er^ 



3. F. spathuldta (Presl) ; silky, st. proliferous, 1. oblong- 

 obovate, heads prominently ^-angled not deeply sunk in wool 

 forming axillary and terminal clusters overtopped by 2 3 acute /., 

 phyll. cuspidate boatshaped with glabrous points. F. Jussi&i 

 C. & G. Atl. Fl. Par. t. 26. Sy. E. B. 738. Whitish. St. 

 usually branched from near its base ; branches mostly hori- 

 zontal. Heads larger than those of Sp. 1, 8 15 in each cluster; 

 furrows very deep. Tips of phyll. yellow. Dry fields. A. VII. 

 VIII. E. 



** Phyll. at length spreading. 



4. F. miriima (Fr.) ; st. forked, 1. linear-lanceolate &cutejlat 

 adpressed, heads pyramidal in lateral and terminal clusters 

 longer than the leaves, phyll. bluntish cottony with glabrous 

 points. E. B. 1157. Gnaphalium arvense Willd. St. slender, 

 vrect, 2 6 in. high, branched, the branches forked ; or prostrate 

 and spreading. Fl. yellowish in very small heads. Whole plant 

 cottony, greyish. Dry sandy and gravellv places. A. VI. IX. 



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