1066 GNAPHALIUM. | CLASS XIX, ORDER I. 
and chaplets, which are made of the flowers of Gnaphalium; the 
white chaplets adorn the graves of the young and unmarried, and the 
yellow often intermixed with other coloured flowers are placed upon 
the graves of the old and married. In our own country it is usual to 
place on the body as it lies in the coffin flowers fresh gathered from 
the garden. 
4. G, sylvatiicum, Linn. (Fig. 1260.) Highland Cudweed. Stem 
simple, erect, downy, terminating in an interrupted leafy spike ; 
leaves linear, lanceolate, downy, the radical ones gradually tapering 
downwards, involucre oblong. 
English Botany, t. 913.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 415.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 8301.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 145. 
B. rectum. Leaves nearly smooth above; spike longer, more 
interrupted. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 301.—G. rectum, Huds.— 
English Botany, t. 124.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 416.—Lindley, 
Synopsis, p. 145. 
Root of long fibres. Stem single, or several from the same root, 
erect, simple, very leafy, from four to twelve inches high, round, 
cottony. eaves long, linear lanceolate, the radical ones gradually 
tapering downwards into a footstalk, the upper sessile, clothed with 
white cottony down, especially beneath in #., nearly smooth above. 
Inflorescence a terminal interrupted leafy spike, of many flowers. 
Involucre oblong, smooth, of unequal scales, ovate oblong, green at 
the base, brown above, with a pale thin membranous margin, 
Florets yellowish, numerous, those of the margin tubular, with a 
ligulate limb, those of the disk with the limb five-cleft. Fruit ovate. 
Pappus of rough shining hairs. 
Habitat.—Groves, thickets, and pastures ; frequent in Scotland. 
Perennial; flowering in August. 
5. G. supi'num, Linn. (Fig. 1261.) Dwarf Cudweed. Stem decum- 
bent, branched at the base; flowering stems erect; leaves narrow 
lanceolate, or linear, tomentose; flowers spicate, or solitary at the 
end of the stem. 
English Botany, t. 1193.—English Flora, vol. iii. p 416.—Hooker 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 302.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 145.— 
Ornatotheca, De Cand. 
Root fibrous. Stems several, somewhat creeping, flowering stem 
erect, from two to four inches high, erect, simple, terminating in a 
solitary flower, or a lax spike or raceme. eaves linear, or lancolate, 
clothed with a cottony pubescence on both sides, very numerous, and 
crowded at the base of the stem above, scattered. Involucre ovate, its 
scales smooth, lanceolate, dark brown towards the margin, green at 
the base, spreading when in flower. /orets tubular, the limb five- 
cleft, or irregular, yellow. fruit ovate. Pappus of rough simple 
hairs. 
