470 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



fqulknis marginalibns rotundatis, fcariofis, colo- 



ratis. 



* Argyrocom'£ calycihus alhis. 



dioictm I. GNAPHALIUM farmentis procumbentibus, caule 

 fimplicifiimo, corymbo fimplici, floribus divifis. 

 Lin.fyji, nat.p, 545. floribus dioicis Sp. pL p. 

 1199. (Ger. em, 640. /. 4, 5, Cff 641./. 6. Pet, 

 herd, /. 18./. 4. Moris, hijt. f. 7. t, 11. fig, fecun- 

 d'a or dims inferior is,) 

 Mountain Cudweed or Cat's-P'oot. Anglis, 

 It is frequent ia dry barren grounds both in the 

 highlands and lowlands, as on the hills about 

 Arthur* s- Seat at Edinburgh^ he %. VI. 

 The root throws off many trailing fhoots, but the 

 flowering ilalks are ered, three or four inched 

 high, unbranched, and terminated with a clufter 

 of white or red flowers : the radical leaves are 

 fpoon-fliap'd, or oval and widefl: at the extremity, 

 and narrow and linear towards the bafe, green 

 on the upper fide, but white and hoary under- 

 neath ; the ftalk is woolly, and the leaves upon 

 it feflile and lanceolate : the flowers are female 

 one plant, and hermaphrodite on another : the 

 calyx of the female flowers is nearly cylindrical, 

 of the hermaphrodite roundiih : the fcales are 

 dry obtufe and generally white, but in the her- 

 maphrodite flowers are often of a bright red. 



sil^inum 2 . GNAPHAIJUM farmentis procumbentibus, caule 

 flmpliciflimo, capirulo terminali aphyllo, floribus 



oblongis ? 



