SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 413 



the upper is green, even, covered with a thin web of cotton ea- 

 sily rubbed off. Fl. numerous, corym!)ose, on cottony stalks, 

 terminating the stem and branches. Cal. of a most pure, ra- 

 ther opaque, paper-like white, globose before it expands, giving 

 an elegant pearly aspect to the ample panicles, and remaining 

 unchanged after gathering. Hence these powers serve to de- 

 corate chimney-pieces in winter, especially in the country. In 

 South Wales, where the plant, though reckoned of American 

 origin, is to all appearance wild, they afford " Amaranthine 

 wreaths" for the graves of the departed. The perfect //ore/s of 

 the disk are numerous ; the half-ligulate ones of the circumfe- 

 rence very few. Seed-down obtuse, rough. Recept. tuberculated. 



3. G. dioiawi. Mountain Cudweed. 



Shoots procumbent. Stem unbranched. Corymb simple, 

 terminal. Flowers dioecious. Seed-down leathery, va- 

 rious. 



G. dioicum. Linn. Sp. PI. 11 99. frUld. v. 3. 1882. Fl. Br. S69. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 267. Lightf. 470. t. 20. f. 1 . flool,: Scot. 240. 



Fi. Da?!. ^ 1228. Bull. Fr. 1.32:}. 

 G. montanum album. Raii Si/n. 181. 



G. longiore folio et flore. Diil.in Rati Syn. 182. Bauh. Pin. 263. 

 G. montanum purpureum et album. Ger. Em. 640./. Lob. Ic. 



482,483./,/. 

 Filago n. 157." Hall. Hist. v. 1. C7. 

 Elichrysum montanum, longiore et folio, et flore puruureo. Garid. 



Proz;. 157. /. 30. 

 Lag-opus. Tr a g. Hist. 332. f. 

 rilosella minor. Dod. Pcmpf. 68./. Fuchs. Hist. 606./ 7c. 34/. f. 



Dalecfi.m^t. 1098./. 

 Antennaria dlvica. Gcerin. v. 2. 410. /. 1 67. 

 Cat's.foot. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 18./. 4. 



In dry mountainous or heathy pastures. 



On Newmarket heath ; and on Stratton Strawless heatli near Nor- 

 wich. Frequent in the mountainous counties. 



Perennial. June^ July. 



Roots with many long simple fibres. Stems .solitary, simple, up- 

 right, generally from 4 to 6 inches high, cottony, leafy, accom- 

 panied at the base by several prostrate leafy runners, by which 

 the plant is increased. Leaves scattered} obovate on the run- 

 ners ; lanceolate on the stems ; green, smooth and naked above ; 

 very white and cottony beneath. Fl. 4 or 5, terminal, erect, 

 simply corymbose, white, with more or less of a rose-coloured 

 tint, everlasting, and very elegant ; those on one root most per- 

 fect in their anthers, on another in iheir pistils, so that the plant 

 is incompletely dioecious ; but this varies, and the seeds of the 

 latter kind are often abortive, as in most vegetables that increase 

 much by root. The calyx-scales have a membranous termina- 

 tion, either rounded or acute. Seed-down partly rough, partly 



