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

 summit, I. all oblong blunt apiculate, heads prominently 5-anyled 

 half sunk in tornentum forming lateral axillary and terminal 

 clusters surrounded and overtopped by 1 2 blunt I., phyll. boat- 

 shaped cuspidate with glabrous points. G. E. Sm. ! in Phytol. 

 ii. 575. F. lutescens Jord. ! PL nov. Fr. iii. t. 7- Greenish. 

 Smelling like Tansy. St. mostly erect, with short branches 

 below. Heads larger than in F. germ., 1020 in a cluster; re- 

 entering angles 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. *E. 



3. F. spathulata (Presl) ; silky, st. 2 3-chotomous, 1. oblong- 

 obovate, heads prominently 5-anglcd not deeply sunk in tomentum 

 forming axillary arid terminal clusters overtopped by 2 3 acute 

 1., phyll. cuspidate boatshaped with glabrous points. F. Jussiaei 

 Atl. Fl. Par. t. 26. Whitish. St. usually branched from near 

 its base. Heads larger than those of F. germ., 8 15 in each 

 cluster ; re-entering angles very deep. Tips of phyll. yellow. 

 Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. E. 



4. F. minima (Fr.); st. dichotomously branched, 1. linear-lan- 

 ceolate acute flat adpressed, heads pyramidal in lateral and ter- 

 minal clusters longer than the leaves, phyll. bluntish cottony with 

 glabrous points. E. B. 1157- Gnaphalium Sm. St. slender, 

 erect, 2 6 in. high, branched, the branches dichotomous, or 

 prostrate and spreading. Fl. yellowish in very small heads. 

 Whole plant cottony, grayish. Dry sandy and gravelly places. 

 A. VI. IX. 



5. F. gallica (L.) ; st. dichotomously branched, /. linear acute, 

 heads conical in axillary terminal clusters shorter than the leaves, 

 outer phyll. cottony with bluntish glabrous points gibbous at the 

 base and inclosing the marginal fr. E. B. 2369. Gnaphalium 

 Sm. St. 6 8 in. high, slender. L. narrowing upwards from the 

 base, upright, afterwards revolute. Dry gravelly places, very 

 rare. Bere Church, Essex, 1842. A. VII. IX. E. 



20. (12.) GNAPHALIUM Linn. 



1. G. luteo-album (L.) ; st. simple branched at the base slightly 

 corymbose above, heads densely clustered leafless, 1 linear-oblong 

 wavy woolly on both sides half clasping, lower 1. broader at the 

 end and obtuse, upper 1. narrowing and acute. E. B. 1002. 

 Woolly. St. 3 12 in. high, decumbent below, then erect or 

 ascending. Heads aggregated at the extremities of the stem ; 

 involucre straw-coloured; florets tinged with red. Sandy elds, 

 very rare, t Belfast. Mr. W. Thompson. A. VII. VIII. E. I. 



