OLASS XIX. ORDER I. | GNATPHALIUM. 1063 
3. F. German'ica, Linn. (Fig. 1255.) Common Filago. White, with 
woolly pubescence ; stem erect, proliferous at the summit; leaves 
lanceolate, acute ; heads of flowers numerous, densely glomerate, ter- 
minal, and in the axis of the branches; involucre scales membra- 
nous, lanceolate, bristle pointed. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 802.--Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
145,.—Gnaphalium germanicum, Huds.—English Botany, t. 946.— 
English Flora, p. 419. 
Root small, fibrous. Stems one or more erect, six to eighteen 
inches high, round, white, with soft woolliness, like the rest of the 
plant, simple, leafy. Leaves very numerous, scattered, lanceolate, 
acute, wavy, sessile, embracing the stem, erect, bearing at the top 
numerous crowded heads of flowers in a globular form as large as a 
marble, and from beneath this spring one, two, or several branches, 
each terminating in the same globose collection of heads and 
branches, and often these branches again terminate in the same way. 
Involucre of smooth membranous lanceolate bristle-pointed scales, 
erect. florets small, tubular, yellow, the limb five cleft. Fruit 
small, downy. Pappus rough. Receptacle small, tuberculated, ex- 
posed after the fruit has fallen. 
Habitat.—Fields, pastures, aud waste places; common. 
Annual; flowering in July and August. 
GENUS XXVII GNAPHA’LIUM.—Linn. Oudweed. 
Nat. Ord. Composi’t&. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Jnvolucrum imbricated, scales unequal, obtuse, mem- 
branous, coloured, as long as the florets. lorets slender, 
tubular, those of the disk perfect on the circumference, with 
pistils only. Receptacle flat, naked. Pappus hairy, often 
thickened upwards.—Name yvaQarov, soft down, or wool; in 
reference to the clothing of the leaves. 
* Flowers dicctous (Antennaria, Brown.). 
1. G. diot'cum, Linn. (Fig. 1256.) Mountain Cudweed. Stolons 
prostrate, rooting ; stem simple; leaves nearly smooth above, white 
and woolly beueath, the radical ones spatulate, the upper linear ; 
flowers dicecious; corymb terminal; involucre scales smooth, 
coloured, obtuse, elongated. 
English Botany, t. 267 .—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 414.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 301.—Antennaria dioica, Gertn.— 
Lindley, Synopsis. 
B. hyperbo'reum. (Fig. 1257.) Leaves woo'ly on both sides. 
Antennaria hyperborea, Don,—English Botany, Suppl. t. 2640, 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 825. 
