SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 471 

 oblongis ? Sp. pi. 11^9. Haller, hifl. Jiirp. Helve t. 

 n. 149. (Scopol. Flor, Carniol. n. 1048. t, ^y. noftr^ 

 plants Jimillima^ fed radix: ahfque jarmentis, Oed. 

 Dan, t, 332. non male reprefentat^ fed Folium in 

 nofira planta fiori fuhjicitur. vid^fg. noft.) 



Alpine Cudweed. Anglis, 



Upon the tops of the highland mountains not un- 

 frequent, as on Creg-chaillech^ near Finlarigy in 

 Breadalbane^ upon Mal-ghyrdy^ and upon the 

 mountains of Glenlyon^ Glenurchy^ and Glenc@y &c. 

 Mr. Stuart, li. VIII. 



The root throws off feveral fhoots, confiding of 

 tufts of narrow linear leaves one third of an inch 

 long, the flowering flalk is ercd) three inches 

 high, covered with a white cotton fubftance, and 

 furnifhed with three or four leaves fimilar to 

 thofe of the Ihoots, but rather longer : three or 

 four flowers grow near the top of the ftalk in 

 the manner of a fpike, one only from the aU 

 of each leave, fometimes fefTilc, and fometimes 

 fupported on a fliort peduncle : the calyx is near- 

 ly cylindrical, the fcales acutely oval, a little downy 

 at the bafe, the apex and margins dry, pellucid 

 and fufcous : the florets are moflly female, but a 

 few in the centre of the difc are fufcous and her- 

 maphrodite. 



Tht calyx in this fpecjes is extremely like that in 

 the following, but the habit of the plant is to- 

 tally different. 



** Filaginoidea calycihtis cinereis, 



fylvaticum GNAPHALIUM caule herbaceo fimplicifilmo 

 ^-^ ^^ ' erea:o, 



