PLex.cal, 39. COMPOSITiE, C. 227. Filago. 461 



clinanthus awlshape, naked above, chaffy below, chaffs 

 linear, like the scales of the pericline, enclosing the akenia; 

 akenium ovate, pappus hairlike, sessile, rough, deciduous, 

 or 0. — Stem forked, branched ; calathides aggregated into 

 a calathiphore ; calathiphore ovate, in the forks and ter- 

 minal. 



1. Filago minima. ^ Least chafeweed. 

 Stem upright, branched ; leaves lanceolate, pointed, flat^ 



woolly ; calathides conical, crowded, and solitary, axillary 

 and terminal. 



Gnaphalium minimum, Raii Syn, 181,4. 



Filago minor, Ger. em. 641, 9. 



Cinaphalium monlanum, Hudson Fl. Angl. 362. 



Gnaphalium montanum /3, Lamarcke Enc. Meth. 2, 760. 



Filago montana, Sibthorp FL Ox. 262, not of Linnteus. 



Least cudweed. 



Sandy places ; annual ; July. 



Leaves upright, pressed close, short, both sides woolly. 



2. Filago montana. Mowitain chafeweed. 

 Stem upright, forked ; leaves linear, lanceolate, pressed 



close, tomentose; calathides crowded, axillary or solitary. 



Filago montana, Lin. S. P. 1312. 

 Gnaphalium montanum, Willd. S. P, 1896. 



Sandy places; annual; July. 



Stem upright; 9 inches high, much branched, larger 

 and more woolly than the preceding. 



3. Filago filif or mis. Threadlike chafeweed. 

 Stem upright, forked ; leaves linear, pointed, greyish, 



calathides crowded, axillary in the forks, and terminal. 



Gnaphalium parvum ramosissimum foliis angustissimis polyspermon. 

 Rail Syn. 181,5. 



Filago gallica, Lin. S. P. 1312. 

 Gnaphalium gallicum, Hudson Fl. Angl. 361 . 

 Grass-leaved cudweed, 



Sandy fields ; annual ; July and August. 

 Stem simple at bottom, much branched above; leaves 

 revolute, twisted, both sides woolly. 



4. Filago vulgaris. Common chafeweed. 

 Stem upright, forked ; leaves linear, lanceolate, pointed, 



tomentose; calathides many; calathiphore globular, lateral 

 and terminal. 



