302 SYNGENESIA — SUPERFLUA. [Fihtgo. 



above, spike longer more interrupted. G. rectum, Huds. — E. 

 Bot. t. 124. 



Groves, thickets, and pastures ; frequent in Scotland. Fl. Aug. If. 

 — Scales of the involucre oblong, shining, with a broad, brown border. 



5. G. supinum, L. {dwarf Cudweed); stem decumbent branch- 

 ing only from the base, flowering-stems erect, flowers solitary 

 or racemed, leaves linear downy on both sides. /?. Hot. t. 1193. 

 — Omatotheca, DC. — G. aljnnum, Lightf. Scot. t. 20. y. 2. 



Summits of all the Highland mountains, abundant. Fl. July, Aug. 

 If.. — Whole plant rarely exceeding 2 — 3 inches in height, clothed with 

 a white cottony substance. Very nearly allied to the preceding, yet 

 a truly distiuct species. 



6. G. ulif/i)idsii)n, L. (marsh Cudweed) ; stem very much 

 branched diiFuse woolly, leaves linear-lanceolate downy, flowers 

 in terminal crowded clusters which are shorter than the leaves. 



E. Bot. t. 1194. 



Sandy and wet places ; especially where water occasionally stands. 

 Fl. Aug. Sept. ©. — A span high, much branched. Flowers 2 — 3 

 together in the closely placed upper leaves, small, sessile, forming ob- 

 long clusters at the extremity of the branches. Scales of the involucre 

 yellowish-brown, shining, glabrous. 



29. FiLAGO. Linn. Filago. 



1. F. Gdllica, Tu. (narrow-leaved Filago); stem erect dicho- 

 tomous, leaves linear-acuminate downy, flowers crowded axil- 

 lary and terminal, clusters much shorter than the leaves. — Gna- 

 phalium, Huds. — E. Bot. t. 2369. 



Gravelly and sandy fields ; about Castle Heveningham, Essex. In 

 Derbyshire. Kent. Near Forfar; and near Newburgh, Fifeshire. Fl. 

 July, Aug. 0. — Stem about a span high, slender, leafy. Flowers small, 

 oblong,in rather distant, leafy clusters. — The greater length of the leaves 

 seems chiefly to distinguish this from the following. 



2. F. minima, {least Filago); stem erect branched, branches 

 spreading, leaves lanceolate acute cottony, flowers conical clus- 

 tered lateral and terminal, clusters longer than the leaves. Gna- 

 phalium, E. Bot. t. 1157. — Filago montana, Sibth. {not L.) — 



F. arvensis, E/irh. Herb. 100, (not of L.) Sm. 



Dry and gravelly places, frequent. Fl. July, Aug. 0. — Steins 4 — 6 

 inches high, slender, branched above in a dichotomous manner. Invo- 

 lucres downy, broad at the base. Florets yellowish. — Said by Smith to 

 be smaller and less woolly than the true F. mont. of the Linn. Herb. 



3. F. Germdnica-, L. {commo7i Filago); stem erect proliferous 

 at the suminit, leaves lanceolate downy acute, flowers globoso- 

 capitate in the axils of the branches and terminal. Gfiaphaliuw, 

 Huds. — E. Bot. t. 1 946. 



Sandy and gravelly places and dry pastures. Fl. June, July. 0. — 

 Stems 6 — 8 inches high, erect, very leafy, terminated by a globular Aearf 

 of small, ovate flowers, from beneath which spring 2 — 3 or more hori- 

 zontal branches, in a proliferous manner, each terminated by a head of 



