472 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



eredo, floribus fparfis. Lin.fyft, nat.p, 545. Sp. 



pi. 1200. (fier, em, 6^(), f. i, Fet, herb, t. iS,f. 



6. Moris, hift. / 7. /. 11./. I. Scopol FL CarnioL 



n. 1046. /. ^6, Oed. Dan. t. 254) 

 Spiked upright Cudweed. Anglis, 

 We obferv'd it upon dry paftures in the highlands 



frequently. It grows likewife in woods and 



thickets, i ? VIII. 



Several ftalks generally arife from the fame root, 

 but fometimes only one, ered, unbranched, ten 

 or twelve inches high, covered with a white cot- 

 ton down, befct the whole length with long, li- 

 near, acute leaves, greenifh and downy on the 

 upper fide, but white and hoary underneath, 

 growing alternately one above another, and 

 fhorter by degrees towards the top of the ftalk. 

 The flowers grow in one common, long, thick 

 fpike, compounded of numerous other fpicuU^ 

 arifing from the a/^ of the leaves, and bearing 

 each from one to three, four, or more flowers : 

 the calyx is nearly cylindrical, the fcales ellipti- 

 cal, green at the bafe, fufcous towards the apex, 

 pellucid and fliining on the border : the florets 

 are yellowifh, extremely fine and flender, mod of 

 them female, but a few hermaphrodite ones in 

 the centre of the difc. 

 There is a variety of this plant which fometimes oc- 

 curs upon the highland mountains, having wider 

 leaves, and a fliott clufl:ered fpike of black 

 flowers. 



GNAPHALIUM 



