1062 FILAGO. (CLASS XIX. ORDER 1, 
acuminate, spreading; heads of flowers loosely glomerate, terminal 
and axilary, much shorter than the leaves; involucre scales downy, 
with a smooth membranous obtuse point. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4, vol. i. p. 302.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
145.—Gnaphalium gallicum, Huds.—English Botany, t. 2369.— 
English Flora, vol. iii. p. 418. 
Root small, tapering. Stem single, or several, about six inches 
high, erect, round, slender, white, like the rest of the plant, with a 
covering of silky hairs, simple below, branched above in a forked 
manner into several subdivisions. Leaves numerous, linear, taper 
pointed, about an inch long, erect, or slightly spreading. Heads of 
flowers small, several crowded together into globose clusters in the 
axis of the branches and leaves, and also terminal, much shorter than 
the leaves. Jnvolucre scales lanceolate, acute, downy, with a mem 
branous margin, erect, close pressed. ’lorets tubular, five cleft, pale 
straw colour. Hruit somewhat kidney shaped, clothed with cottony 
down. Pappus rough. Receptacle tuberculated, exposed after the 
escape of the fruit 
Habitat.—Dry gravelly or sandy soil; not common. Essex, Kent 
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire ; near Forfar, and Newburgh, Fifeshire, 
Scotland. 
Annual; flowering in July and August. 
2. F. mini'ma, Fries. (Fig. 1254.) Least Filago. White, with 
woolly pubescence; stem erect, branched, its branches dichotomous ; 
leaves short, lanceolate, close pressed; heads of flowers glomerate, 
terminal and axillary, longer than the leaves; involucre scales downy, 
with a smooth membranous obtuse point. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 302.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
145 —Gnaphalium minimum, Smith.—English Botany, t. 1157— 
English Flora, vol. iii. p. 418.—G. montanum, Huds. 
Root small, fibrous. Stem erect, slender, round, from three to six 
inches high, white, with cottony pubescence, as is the rest of the 
plant, single or several, simple below, branched at the top, the 
branches simple, or forked, and spreading. Leaves scattered, erect, 
lanceolate, about half an inch long, numerous, sessile. Heads of 
flowers small, conical, numerous, crowded into globose clusters at 
the ends and axis of the branches. Jnvolucre scales lanceolate, ob- 
tuse, downy, with a membranous point. Jlorets tubular, yellow, the 
limb five cleft. Fruit small, ovate, downy. Pappus of rough bristly 
hairs. Receptacle small, tuberculated, exposed after the fruit is ripe. 
Habitat.—Dry gravelly and sandy places; frequent. 
Annual; flowering in July and August, 
This is a smaller plant than the last, and is readily distinguished 
by its short erect leaves, and the globose heads of flowers longer than 
the leaves. The panicle is smaller, and less divided. 
