SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF.Giiaphalium. 41 1 



the circumference of the disk ; their corolla, if present, 

 slender, or awl-shaped, mostly luidivided. Filam. 5, 



• capillary, short. Afit/i. in a cylindrical tube. Germ. 

 obovate, angular. Style thread-shaped, the length of the 

 floret. Stigmas 2, spi'eading, notched. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the permanent shining calyx, variously coloured. 

 Seed obovate, small, alike, and usually perfect, in all the 

 florets. Doxson either simple, or variously feathery. Re- 

 cept. naked. 



Some few Jlorets, in the very centre of the disk, are occa- 

 sionally abortive. Antetinaria of Gsertner has dioecious 

 Jloisoers, and a diversity of feathery seed-domm ,• yet it is not 

 a natural genus. In Filago the Jlorets of the disk are 

 described by Linnaeus as 4-cleft, with 4 stamens only ; 

 but this is rarely, if ever, the case. There are many 

 aberrations, as to \\\e Jlorets being more or less perfect, in 

 different species, but nothing can be liable to more va- 

 riations than this circumstance. 



A vast genus, overburthened with species, among which 

 there is great diversity of habit, and the exotic ones, 

 chiefly African, undoubtedly require skilful investigation. 

 The roots are annual, or more generally perennial. 

 Herbage cottony. Stem herbaceous or shrubby, round, 

 leafy. Leaves simple, undivided, and entire. Fl. coryra-r 

 bose, or capitate ; yellow in the disk. Calyx yellow, red, 

 white, brown, or blackish, never blue. 



* Calyx yello'w. 



1. G. luteo -album. Jersey Cudweed. 



Herbaceous. Leaves half-clasping, linear-oblong, wavy, 

 woolly on both sides ; lower ones blunt. FJowers densely 

 tufted. 



G. luteo-album. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 196. mild. v. 3. 1871 . Fl. Br. 



867. Engl. Bot. v. 14. t. 1002. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 5. 13. 



Ehrh. Herb. WS. 

 G. majus, lato oblongo folio. Bauh. Pin. 363. Plulc. Almag. 17!, 



Phjt.t.^).f.<i. 

 G. Plateau secundum. Clus. Hist. v. 1.329. f. 

 G. oblongo folio. Ger. Em. 643./. 



G. ad Stoechadem citrinam accedens. Bauh. Hist. w. 3. p. 1 . 1 60. f. 

 Filago n. 147. Hall. Hist. v. ]. 64. 

 Elichrysum sylvestre latifolium, capitulis conglobatis. Raii Syn. 



182. 



