462 227.Filago. 39, COMPOSITE, C. Plex.cal 



Gnaphalium minus, seu Herba impia, Raii Syn. 180,3; Pari: 685. 



Filago seu Herba impia, Ger. em. 642, 10, 



Gnaphalium Germanicuui, Hudson FL Angl. 362. 



Filago Germaiiica, Lin. S. P. 1311. 



Gnaphalium tlichotomum, Slokes Bot. Med. 203. 



Lofgia, Cassine, Journ. Philom. 1819. 



Herb impious. Wicked cudweed. Childing cudweed. 



Fields and waysides; annual; July and August. 



Slem 2 feet high ; leaves stem-clasping, both sides woolly ; 

 flowers the younger overtop the elder. — Used in the bloody 

 flux, both of man and beast. 



LIII. 228. CONYZA. Hippocrates. Floughmans-spikenard. 

 Perkline ovate, cylindrical ; scales lanceolate, outer 

 scales leaflike, tip bent back, spreading; inner cartilagi- 

 nous, straight, fringed ; calathides slightly radiated ; flowers 

 all fertile; of the centre hermaphrodite, funnelshape, 5-cut; 

 of the rays female, very small, 3-cut; ligulae very short, 

 slender; clinantlius flat, tubercular, rough; akenium angu- 

 lar, furrowed ; pappus hairlike, rough. — Herb downy ; leaves 

 not cut; radical petioled; calathides corymbose, crowded; 

 GorollcB yellow. 



Conyza squarrosa. Hough ploughmans-spikenard. 



Leaves ovate, lanceolate, downy ; upper leaves oblong, 

 lanceolate, not cut. 



Bacciiaris Monspeliensium, Raii Syn. 179, 1 ; Ger. em. 192; Park. 114. 

 Conyza squarrosa, Lin. S. P. 1205. 

 Great Fleabane. 



Chalky pastures and waysides ; biennial ; July and Aug. 

 Stem 3 feet high ; radical leaves ovate, crenate. — Leaves 

 scented, bitter and acrid. 



LIV. 229. PULICARIA. Gaza. Fleabane. 



PericUne roundish ; scales imbricate, nearly equal, all 

 linear, pointed, tips spread out; calathides Yndiaied; flowem 

 of the centre hermaphrodite ; of the circumference female, 

 many; liguhe slender, linear, 3-toothed, recurved; anthers 

 with a long, bristlelike basillary appendix; cllnanthns ho- 

 neycombed ; cells fringed ; akenium rounded, hirsute ; pap- 

 pus double ; outer membranaceous, toothed ; inner hair- 

 like, rays few, longer than the seed, deciduous. — Herb 

 downy; /eaw? stem-clasping; pericline downy; brancheslonger 

 than the main stem. 



