76 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES v.— GNAPHALIUM SUPINUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXLV. 



Heich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLII. Fig. 2. 

 miiut, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1006. 



Perennial. Rootstock producing numerous short leafy csespi- 

 tose barren shoots and erect simple flowering-stems. Lowest leaves 

 oblanceolate-linear, those of the stem linear-acute, all cottony on 

 both sides. Anthodes 1 to 7, in a short terminal head-like spike 

 or in a few-flowered raceme, at first curved, ultimately erect. Pcri- 

 cline campanulate ; phyllaries nearly equal, scarious, with an olive 

 stripe in the middle and brown scarious margins, nearly as long as 

 the pappus and expanded florets. Achenes fusiform-cylindrical, 

 compressed, smooth, finely -hairy. 



Var. a, geuidnnm. 

 Anthodes sessile or subsessile, in a short terminal spike or head. 



Var. 0, fusciim. Scop. 

 Anthodes stalked, in a rather lax raceme. 



On rocks, and by the sides of streams on mountains. Not 

 iinccmmon througliout the higher Highland mountains. Vars. a 

 and 3 occur together, and pass insensibly into each other. 



Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Plant growing in small tufts. Stems ^ to 8 inches high, very 

 cottony towards tlie top. Anthodes \ inch long, broader than in 

 the two preceding, with the outer scales longer in proportion ; the 

 inner ones more acute, and of thinner texture ; the outer ones with 

 tiie wool towards the base coming further up. Ecmalc florets in 

 only one row. Achenes grooved on the inner face, clothed with 

 short wliite hairs. 



Varieties a and 3 pass insensibly into each other. 



Dwarf Cudweed. 

 French, Gnaphale Petite. German, Nkdriges RuhrhrmU. 



Section III.— ANTENNARIA. B. Br. 



Anthodes homogamous, dioecious. Florets of the sub-male 

 plants M'ith the anthers longer than the tube ; style usually undi- 

 vided ; pappus of denticulate clavate hairs. Florets of the female 

 phuits without anthers; style 2-cleft ; pappus of capillary hairs 

 united into a ring at the base and falling otf united at maturity. 



