416 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 



G.alpinum. LighlfA70. t. 20. f. 2. Fl. Dan. t. 332. 



G. fuseiim. Scop. Cam. V. 2. ]52. 1. 1)7. 



G. alpinum nanum, seu pumilum. Bocc. Sic. 40. t. 20./. 1., Sttt. 

 Tour on the Continent, ed. 2. v. 3. 101 . 



Filago n. 149. HalL Hist. v. 1. 65. 



Eiichrysum alpinum minimum, capillaceo folio. Tourn. Inst. 454 ; 

 according to his herbarium. 



On the micaceous summits of the Highland mountains. 



Near the top of Ben Lomond plentifully, 1782. 



Perennial. July. 



Root slender, creeping, black. Stems from 2 to 4 inches long, 

 very slender, quite simple, cottony, sparingly leafy, seldom 

 quite erect, and often nearly prostrate ; sometimes bearing only 

 one solitary terminal^ou-'er; but most usually ending in a sim- 

 ple, lax cluster, of from 3 to 5 or 6 flowers, whose stalks are 

 clothed with an abundant lax cottony web. Leaves very nar- 

 row, almost linear, an inch or two long, finely cottony on both 

 sides ; crowded about the root ; scattered on the stem. £"«/. 

 rather ovate than cylindrical, generally spreading even w-hile in 

 flower, smooth ; its scales brown, of a narrower and more acute 

 form tlian either of the preceding, from which this species may, 

 I think, by that mark be known, while the conspicuous partial 

 stalks of the flowers, often considerably elongated, aftbrd a good 

 scientific distinction. There are indeed dwarf alpine states of 

 G. sylvaticum, which approach the supinum, one of which is G. 

 supinum lavenduloe folio, Bocc. Mus. 107. t. 85 ; but the dense 

 tufted sessile^ou.-ers indicate the true sylvaticum. The recepta- 

 cle of all these species is alike, slightly cellular. Seed-down rough. 

 Margi7ialflorets of the present less ligulate than in the others, 

 and unequally notched. See Engl. Eat. 1. 1 193, and Fl. Br. 



7 . G. nliginositm. Marsh Cudweed. 



Stem much branched, spreading. Leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, cottony on both sides. Flowers in dense terminal 

 tufts. 



G. uliginosum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1200. M'illd. v. 3. 189 1 . Fl. Br. 

 872. Engl. Bot. i'. 1 7. M 1 94. Hook. Scot. 24 1 . Fl. Dan. t. 859. 

 Ehrh.Herb.99. 



G. longifolium humile ramosum, capitulis nigris. Raii Syn. 181. 



G. vulgare. Ger. Em. 639./. 



G. medium, Bauh. Pin. 263; according to his herbarium. Haller. 



G. annuum serotinum capitulis nigricantibus, in humidis gaudens. 

 Moris.v. 3. 92. sect. 7.t. 11./. 14. 



Filago n. 151. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 65 . 



F. minor. Dod. Pempt. 66./. Lob. Ic. 48 1 . /. 



Long Cudweed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 1 8./ 7- 



In sandy watery places, or where water has stood during winter. 



