72 ENGLISH BOTANY, 



Stem slender, wiry, 3 to 9 inches long, the branches elongated- 

 sprencling. Leaves very slender, crowded. Anthodes ^ inch long. 

 Achenes of the outer row of female florets so tightly folded up in 

 the palere that they remain attached to the plant until the fall of 

 the scales. Whole plant silky. 



Narrow-leaved Cudtceed. 



French, Cotonnier en Aleiie. German, Franzostsches ScMtnmelkraut. 



GENUS XV— Qc NAPHALIUM. Linn. 



Anthodes heterogamous or dioeciously homogamous, several- 

 or many-flowered, discoid. Clinanth flat or convex, naked. Peri- 

 cline hemispherical, campanulate or shortly cylindrical, of imbri- 

 cated flattish scarious frequently coloured phyllaries arranged in 

 several rows. Florets all tubular, female ones with filiform corollas ; 

 none of them in the axils of palese. Achenes sub-cylindrical or 

 fusiform. Pappus of hairs arranged in a single row. 



Cottony annuals or perennials with alternate entire leaves. 

 Anthodes solitary or in corymbs or clusters, with the phyllaries 

 scarious, grey, brown, yellow, white, or rose-colour. Florets 

 yellowish. 



The name of this genus of plants is said to come from the Greek word yvaifiEvr 

 (gnapheus), a fuller, certain species being soft and woolly as the nap cf cloth, and 

 according to some writers, used as a substitute for cotton or flax in filling couches and 

 nmttresses ; and hence called Cotton weed. 



Section I.— EU-GNAPHALIUM. 



Anthodes heterogamous. Florets of the centre perfect, those 

 of the circumference female, disposed in several rows. Pappus 

 of capillary hairs free to the base and falling off separately at 

 maturity. 



SPECIES I.-GNAPHALIUM ULIGINOSUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXLT. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLVIl(I). Figs. 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 42. 



Annual. Stem ascending or decumbent, much branched. 

 Leaves not amplexicaul, oblanceolate-strapshaped or strapshaped, 

 cottony on both side.'^, rarely glabrous. Anthodes collected into 

 cylindrical-ovoid dense terminal heads, overtopped by the leaves 

 beneath them. Pericline ovate-ovoid ; phyllaries unequal, scarious, 

 light-brown. Achenes smooth, glabrous or pajiillose. 



