SYNGENESIA POLYGAM. SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 237 



unbranched. Corymb simple, terminal. Flowers dioe- 

 cious. Seed-down feathery, various. E. B. 267- G. 

 montanum purpureum et album. G. E. 640. 



Dry, mountainous, or heathy pastures. ** Woodcot Heath. Sb. 



Per. June. 



Ls. battledore-shaped, pointed, enth'e, bright green, and smooth 

 above ; beneath yery white, and cottony. Ls. of the traiUng 

 shoots mostly opposite. Flowering stem three or four inches, 

 with alternate, spear-shaped leaves, half embracing the stem, 

 terminated by a simple corymb of four or five flowers, w^hite or 

 reddish ; of the nature of the flowers, styled Everlastings. 

 * * Calyx brown, and less ornamental. 



G. rectum. TJpriglit Wood G. Stem simple, erect, 

 panicled, many-flowered, leafy. Leaves linear-spear- 

 shaped, naked on the upper side ; silky beneath. E. 

 B. 124. G. anglicum. G. E. 689. 



Groves, thickets, pastures, in a soil ivhich is dry, or gravelly. 



Per. August. 



One and a half to two f. Cal. brown with a blush-coloured hue. 

 Fl. terminal, and also axillary, stalkless, spiked. Fl. -stalks 

 very short, from the sides of the stem, from the bosom of the 

 leaves, from one to five, or more flowers, the lowermost some- 

 what distant, the upper crowded. 



G. idiginosum. Marsh G. Stem much branched, 

 spreading. Leaves linear-spear-shaped, somewhat 

 embracing the stem, cottony on both sides. Flowers 

 in close, terminal tufts, shorter than the leaves. E. B. 

 1194. G. vulgare. G. E. 639- 



Sandy, watery places, or where water has stood during winter. 



An. August. 



Stem three to nine inches : distinguished by its very numerous, 

 spreading branches, each terminated by a close head of yellow- 

 ish brown, shining flowers, encompassed wdth many leaves. 

 branches erect at their extremities, alternately subdivided. 

 Cal. -scales spear-shaped, acute, dark, shining brown. 



G. minhnum. Least G. Stem erect, branched. Leaves 

 spear-shaped, acute, flat. Flowers conical, in small 

 side and terminal tufts, longer than the leaves. E. B. 

 1157. Filago montana. Sb. 262. F. minor. G. 

 E. 641. 



Barren, sandy, or gravelly soil. Shotover Hill, near the road to 

 Cuddesdon. Sb. 



An. June. 



Stem a few inches, slender, simple, naked below, forked, corym- 

 bose above. Ls. alternate, pressed to the stem, woolly on both 



