418 SYNGENESIA—POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 



G. minimum. Fl. Br. 873. Eiigl. Bot. v. 17. t. 1157. Willd. Sp. 



Pl.v.3.]896. Hook. Scot. 241. Relh.324. RaiiSyn.181. 



Lob.lc.48l.f. Bauh.Hist.v.3.p.\. 159./. 

 G. montanum. Huds.362. With. 715. Hull v. \. 239. 

 G. minimum erectum, in arenosis nascens. Moris, v. 3. 92. sect. 7. 



Ml./. 3. 

 Filago montana, Sibth.262. Abbot 189 ; but not of Linn. 

 F. minor. Ger. Em. 64 1 ./. 



F. arvensis. Ehrh. Herb. 100 ; not of Linn. 

 Least Cudweed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 1 8./. 1 1 . 



In barren sandy and gi-avelly ground, common. 



Annual. July. 



Root small .and slender. Herb all over sparingly, not densely, cot- 

 tony, of a greyish hue. Stems one or more, from 3 to 6 inches 

 high, various in direction and luxuriance, slender, branched, leafy. 

 Leaves scattered, numerous, small, sessile, lanceolate, flat, point- 

 ed, equally downy on both sides, from one-fourth to one-third of 

 an inch long. Fl. 3 or more together, sessile, in small heads 

 or tufts, partly terminal, partly at the sides, or in the forks, of 

 the branches. Cal. ovate at the base, conical upwards ; scales 

 lanceolate, convex, acute, green, downy, with narrow membra- 

 nous edges j inner ones entirely membranous. Florets yeWow; 

 those of the disk from 4 to 8, tubular, 5-cleft ; of the circumfe- 

 rence about as many, likewise tubular, extremely slender,^ mi- 

 nutely notched, with prominent stigmas. Seed perfect in both. 

 Downrough. Recept. extremely small, tuberculated, surround- 

 ed by the permanent half-spreading calyx. 



Linnseus did not know this species. Hudson and others took it 

 for his Filago montana, a much larger and more woolly plant, 

 not found in Britain. Both are natives of Switzerland, and ap- 

 pear to be confounded by Haller under his Filago n. 155 ; though 

 the real F. montana, which is likewise a Gnaphalium, was what 

 he principally intended. Hence he finds fault with Lobel's 

 figure, as not well agreeing therewith, being in fact designed 

 for a different plant, of which Haller had no suspicion. 



10. Gi. germankum. Common Cudweed. 



Stem erect, proliferous. Leaves lanceolate. Heads glo- 

 bose, many-flowered, lateral as well as terminal. Calyx- 

 scales bristle-pointed. 



G. germanicum. Huds.3&2. Fl. Br. 874. Engl. Bot. v. 14. t. 946. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. »j. 3. 1 894. Hook. Scot. 24 1 . Lond. t 43 Relh 

 324. Bauh. Hist. V. 3. p. I. \ 58. f. 



G. minus, seu Herba impia. Raii Syn. 180. 

 Gnaphalium. Fuchs. Hist. 222. f. Ic. 126./. 

 G. vulgare. Matth. Valgr.v. 2. 214. f Canier. Epit. 606. f. Lob. 

 Ic.480.f. Dalech. Hist. 1115. f. 



