4 1 2 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 



Helichvysum sen Chrysocome annua sylvestriSj capitulis niinori- 



bus conglobatis. Moris, v. 3. 88. sect. 7. t.W ./. 

 Clirysocome citrina supina latifolia italica. Barrel. Ic. t. 36/. • 

 Jersey Live-long. Peliv. H. Brit. t. 18./. 5. 



In dry sandy ground, in the south. 



On dry banks and walls in Jersey, very common. Slierard. Be- 

 tween Hanxtown and Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, indubita- 

 bly wild. Rev. R. Relhan. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root small and slender. Herb entirely covered wiih white cot- 

 tony down. Stems generally several, from 3 to 12 inches high, 

 unbranched, leafy; recumbent at the bottom; then upright. 

 Leaves numerous, alternate, sessile, clasping the stem with 

 their dilated base, oblong, undulated ; the lower ones obovate 

 at the extremity ; upper acute. Fl. in crowded heads, on co- 

 rymbose stalks. Cal. of a delicate, shining, pale yellow. Mar- 

 ginaljlorets often reddish, as are sometimes the few which com- 

 pose tlie disk. Recept. tuberculated. Seeds fertile in all the 

 florets. Down rough. 



These^ojt'ers are of the k-nd termed Everlasting, but scarcely con- 

 spicuous enough to make a figure in winter nosegays, or to find 

 a place in the flower-garden. 



** Cali/.v while, or reddish. 



2. G. margaritaceum. American Cudweed. Pearly 

 Everlasting. 



Herbaceous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, al- 

 ternate ; loosely cottony on the upper side ; densely un- 

 derneath. Stem branched in the upper part. Panicles 

 corymbose, level-topped. 



G. margaritaceum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 198. Willd. v. 3. 1881. Fl. 



Br. 868. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2018. Dicks. H. Sicc.Jasc. 8. 15. 

 G. americanum. Rati Syn. 182. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. v. 1. 162 /". 



Clus.Hist.v.l.327.f. 

 Filago n. 146. Hull. Hist. v. 1.64. 

 American Live-long. Peliv. H. Brit. 1. 18. f. 3. 

 In moist meadows, rare. 

 Plentifully near Bocking, Essex, Mr Dale ; but perhaps not wild. 



Ray. On the banks of Rymny river. South Whales, for at least 



twelve miles ; Mr. Lhwyd. Dillenius. By a rivulet in the heart 



of Wire forest, Worcestershire. Rev. T. Butt. At Longdon, 



near Litchfield. Dr. Salt. 

 Perennial. August. 

 Root somewhat creeping. Slons erect, 2 feet high, copiously leafy, 



solid, densely cottony ; as is the under side of the leaves ,• while 



