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acuminate scanose scales. Anthei-s with bristles at the base. 

 Style of the perfect florets with short truncate branches ciliated 

 at the apex. — Name: filiim^ thready the whole plant being 

 covered with slender thread-like hairs. 



* Scales of the receptacle hi 1 — 2 rows. 



Oglifa. 



Stem about a 



1. F. Gallica L. (narrow-leaved K); stem erect dichotomous, 

 leaves linear-acute somewhat revolute on the margin, heads 

 crowded in axillai'y and terminal tufts which are shorter than 

 the leaves. Gnaphalium Huds>: E, B, t. 2369. 



Gravelly and sandy fields. Casde Heveningham, and Berechurch. 

 Essex; Hertfordshire; and said also to be found in Kent, Suffolk, 

 Worcester, Derby, Fife, and Forfar. 0. 7—9. 

 span high, slender, leafy. Heads of floivers small, oblong, in rather 

 distant, leafy fascicles ; outer scales of the hwolucre cottony ; inner 

 ones glabrous at the points, gibbous at the base and inclosing the 



Not perhaps truly distinct from the following; in 

 both there are two rows of pistillate florets and scales of the receptacle, 

 which latter are not larger than the Imier scales of the involucre, and 

 we fear no other distinctive marks are to be relied on in this genus. 



2. F. minima Pers. (least F.) ; stem erect dichotomously 

 branched, leaves linear-lanceolate acute cottony flat appressed, 

 heads conical few m lateral and axillary tufts which are longer 

 than the leaves. ' "' ' " " 



marginal florets. 



DC. (not Linn,) 



Gnaphalium Sm.: E. B. t, 1157. F. montana 



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^ Dry and gravelly places, frequent. 0. 6—9. — Stems 4 — 6 inches 

 high, slender, branched above in a dichotomous manner. Involucres 

 broad at the base ; scales cottony glabrous and slightly obtuse at the 



point. Florets yellowish F. montana L. (the same as F. arvensis L.) 



differs from tliis in having a solitary row of pistillate florets separated 

 from the tubular ones by a row of scales larger than the true scales 

 of the involucre : it is so common on the Continent that it may have 

 been passed over in this country. 



Scales of the receptacle and pistillate florets in 5 rows. Gifola. 



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3. F. Germdnica L. (common F.) ; stem erect usually pro- 

 liferous at the summit, leaves downy, heads globose-capitate in 

 the axils of the branches and terminal, scales of the involucre 

 cottony with the points cuspidate and glabrous.— «. heads 

 obscurely 5-angled not surrounded by leaves, scales of the in- 

 volucre longitudinally folded yellowish-white at the 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate, acute or apiculate. 

 B:iids,: E. B. t. 946.— 



apex, 



Gnaphalium 



(3. heads prominently 5-angled sur- 



blunt leaves, scales cymbiform purplish 



apex, leaves grass-green with a yellowish to- 



mentum hanceolate obtuse mucronate. 



rounded by 

 towards the 



1—2 



r — v..v...M,.,^. F, apiculata G. Sm, 



y. Heads sharply pentagonal surrounded by 2-3 acute leaves, 



M 2 



