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4. The leaft Cudweed. 
Guaphalium minimum. 
The root is flender, and has a few fibres. 
The ftalk is tough, white, four inches high, 
and very much branched. 
‘The leaves are fhort and white. 
The flowers grow in very fmall heads on the 
tops of the ftalks; and are {mall, and pale co- 
Joured. ; 
It is common in dry grounds, flowering in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Guapbhalium minus repens. 
5. Black-headed, long-leaved Cudweed. 
Guaphalium longifolium humile ramofum. 
The root is compofed of numerous long fibres. 
The ftalks are round, tough, fix or eight inches 
high, and whitifh; branched, and befet irregu- 
larly with leaves. : 
Thefe are long, narrow, foft to the touch, and 
of a whitith colour. 
The flowers ftand in numerous, fmall, black 
heads at the tops of the ftalks and branches. 
It is common in damp places, and flowers in 
uly. 
d C, Bauhine calls it Guaphalium medium. Others, 
Filago minor. 
6. Narrow-leaved Dwarf Cudweed. 
Guaphalium pumilum ramofifimum poly[permum. 
The root is flender, and hung with a few 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, three inches high, 
very much branched, and of a white colour, 
The leaves are oblong, extremely narrow, and 
fharp-pointed : they are placed irregularly, and 
are of a whitifh colour. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves 
in fmall heads, and in vaft numbers. 
It is common in corn-fields in Suffex, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Guaphalium parvum ramofifinum, 
7. Great-headed Cudweed. 
Guaphalium capitulis majoribus latifolium, 
The root is long, and has many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, whitith, tough, and not 
much branched. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, oblong, ob- 
tufe at the ends, and white.’ 
The flowers ftand in large, brown heads, and 
are very permanent. 
We have it in fandy grounds in Suffex. It 
flowers in Augutt. 
Petiver calls it Gnuaphalium Germanicum. 
8. Mountain-Cudweed. 
Guaphalium montanam flore magno. 
The root is compofed of many brown, tough 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous; and of thefe the 
greater part lie upon the ground, and do not ex- 
ceed an inch and half in length: one or two rife 
up, and are four or five inches high: thefe are 
‘round, of a whitifh green, and not branched. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, hairy, of a pale 
green on the upper-fide, and whitith under- 
neath, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks ; 
and they are very large, of a filvery white, or 
faintly dafhed with purple. 
We have it on mountainous heaths, but not 
common. It flowers in July. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Guaphalium montanum folig 
rotundiore. Others, Pes Cati, Cat's foot, 
There is a variety of this with longer leaves, 
which authors have erroneoufly defcribed as 4 
diftinét fpecies. 
‘g. Tall American Cudweed. 
Gnaphaliuim majus longifelium. 
The root is compofed of numerous, flender 
fibres. 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, and two 
feet high. 
The leaves are very numerous; and they are 
oblong, narrow, and fharp-pointed, waved at the 
edges, and of a beautiful filvery white, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
round filvery heads. 
It is an undoubted native both of England and 
Wales, and is found in many places by the fides 
of rivers, flowering in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Graphalium Americamun la- 
tifolium, Others, Guapbalium Americanum. 
10. Clufter-leaved Cudweed. 
Gnaphalium latifoliuin capitulis conglobatis, 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
few fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and whitihh, 
The leaves are placed alternately, and at con: 
fiderable diftances: they are oblong, broad, 
pointed at the end, and of a whitith green. 
The flowers ftand in round clufters at the tops 
of the branches ; and are of a filvery white, with 
a tinge of ftraw-colour. 
It is frequent in the Ife of Jerfey, and in 
Ireland. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Guaphalium majus lato ob- 
longo folio. 
All the cudweeds pofiefs the fame virtues ; but 
thofe are not enough regarded, They are re- 
commended as vulneraries ; and they are excel- 
lent againft hemorrhages. 
The common cudweed, called herba impia, I had 
an opportunity of feeing lately tried with vaft fuc- 
cefs. It isa known remedy in Suffex for cattle 
when they have bloody ftools; and this led a 
farmer, whofe name is Martin Wakes, to try it 
him(elf in an habitual flux of the belly, attended 
frequently with bloody ftools. He dried the 
whole plant in an oven, and powdered it, fifting 
out the fine part, and throwing away the ftrings. - 
He boiled alfo the frefh plant, cut to pieces, 
four handfuls to two quarts of water, till it was 
very ftrong. 
He then took as much as would lie on a fix- 
pence of the powder, and a glafs of the decoction 
warm, whenever the bloody ftools returned. 
This proved always a temporary, and in the end 
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