COMPOSITE. 71 



In dry fields, by roadsides, on waste places and wall-tops, 

 nather scarce, but generally distributed, except in the extreme 

 North of Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Autumn. 



Stem wiry, 1 to 9 inches high, solitary or several from the crown 

 of the root, sometimes unbranched except in the upper balf, some- 

 times with short branches almost from the base ; branches from 

 beneath the primary cluster and from a little below it elongated, 

 simple or again dichotomous, with clusters of anthodes remotely 

 arranged in lax spikes on the ultimate branches. Clusters about ^ 

 inch in diameter, rather lax. Anthodes ^ inch long. Phyllaries 

 spreading when the fruit is ripe and densely cottony. 



Slender Cudweed. 



German, Kleinstes Schimmelkraut. 



SPECIES v.— FIL AGO GAL Lie A. Linn. 



Plate DCCXL. 



liekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLVII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 40. 



Logfia Gallica, Coss ifc Germ. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. Vol XX. p. 290. Reich. L c. 

 L. subulata, Cass. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 194. 



Gnaplialium Gallicum, Huds. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2369. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. 

 p. 304. 



Stem erect, much branched, some of the branches proliferous, 

 others not ; branches again branched, ascending - spreading, with 

 the heads remotely arranged in lax spikes on the ultimate branches. 

 Leaves linear-subulate, attenuated towards the apex. Anthodes in 

 the clusters 2 to 6, not sunk in wool, overtopped by the leaves im- 

 mediately beneath them. Pericline conical-pyramidal ; phyllaries 

 concave, lanceolate, subacute, cottony on the back, with glabrous 

 brownish points. Outer row of female florets with the ovary rolled 

 up in the outer palese of the clinanth. Whole plant grey, with 

 silky wool. 



In sandy fields at Berechurch, near Colchester, Essex; for- 

 merly found at Castle Iledinghara, near Halsted, in the same 

 county, but has not been recently looked for there. It also 

 has occurred in Herts and Berkshire ; and the Bev. W. W. New- 

 bould informs me there is a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium 

 collected by Lightfoot near Iver, Bucks. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 



