414SYNGENESIA-POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnai)haliuni. 



feathery and somewhat tufted. The redder Jlorets in general have 

 the most perfect pistil, without even the rudiments of stamens. 

 A very fine variety, almost twice the size of the common sort, with 

 the upper surface of the leaves downy, at least while young, was 

 gathered on Breeze hill in the isle of Skye, by the late Mr. J. 

 Mackay, which some have thought a new species. But it seems 

 a mere variety, becoming still larger in a garden, and having, as 

 far as I can make out, no specific mark of distinction. 



#»* (^aiyx browri, and less ornamental. 



iiywtjtfiwT. 4 Q sylvaticu7n. Highland Cudweed. 



Stem simple, erect. Spike leafy, somewhat compound. 

 Leaves lanceolate, tapering at the base, cottony on both 

 sides. 



G. sylvaticum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1200. Wil'd v.3. 1884. R. Br. 869. 



Engl. Bot. V. 13. ^ 913. Hook. Scot. 240. .Scop. Cam. v. 2. 151 . 



t.56. Wahlenb. Lapp. 203 ^. 

 Gnaphalium. Fl. Dan. t.2D4. 

 G. norvegicum. Retz. Prodr. 193. Hcenke in Jacq. Colt. v. 2. 21 . 



Gunn. Norveg. 105. 

 Filago n. 148, variety from Mount Fouly. Hall. HLit. v. 1. 65. 

 Chrj-socome lanuginosa. Dalech. Hist. 1 125./. 



In pastures and thickets, on the Highland mountains of Scotland. 



On mountains to the north of Blair in Athol, above Loch Erruch, 

 and on Ben Wyvis, Ross- shire ; but not in woods. Mr. J. 

 Mackay. 



Perennial. August. 



Root with many long, simple, blackish fibres. Stem solitary, sim- 

 ple, from 3 to 12 inches high, leafy, cottony as well as both 

 sides of the leaves, which are lanceolate, acute, tapering at the 

 base into short footstalks. Fl. in a dense leafy spike, an inch 

 or two long, at the top of the stem, slightly compound, or sub- 

 divided in the lower part ; but its lower branches become mul- 

 tiplied by culture, forming stalked axillary spikes, along the 

 upper half, or more, of the leafy stem. Cal. cylindrical, with 

 numerous, oblong, round-pointed, naked scales, of a dark shi- 

 ning brown, nearly black, in the upper, or exposed, half; straw- 

 coloured below. Florets yellowish : those of the circumference 

 numerous, slender, tubular, with a short, undivided, ligulate 

 border; of the disk few, regular, 5 -cleft. Seed-down uniform, 

 rough. Recept. minutely cellular. Some very dwarf alpine spe- 

 cimens bear solitary ^ouers. 



The differences between this plant and the following seem pretty 

 constant, in their respective natural situations, and there no 

 person can mistake them. Cultivation renders the present spe- 

 cies more luxuriant, with far more numerous and dispersed^oit;- 

 ers, than the humble wild specimens of the Highland mountains ; 

 but the upper surface of tiie leaves continues equally covered 



