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tiUginofum^ GNAPHALIUM caule herbaceo ramofo diiTufo, 

 floribus confertis terminalibus. Lin^ fyft» nat, 

 p, 545. Sp, pL 1200. (Pet. herb, t, U'. f. 7. Ger, 

 em. 639./. 2. Moris, hift.f. 7. /. 11. /. 14. ordi- 

 nis fuperioris ad dextram.) 



Black-headed Cudweed. Jnglis. 



In damp foils, and where water has flood in the 

 winter, frequent. G, VIII. IX. 



The flalk is widely branched, the branches pro- 

 cumbent, white, and hoary : the leaves are li- 

 near, wideft tow^ards the extremity, and covered 

 with a cotton down, efpecially on the under fide : 

 the flowers are very fmall, fefiile, and grow in 

 cluilers at the fummits of the branches, imbed- 

 ded in down amongfl the leaves t the fc ales of 

 the calyx are of a dark Ihining fufcous color, in 

 the younger ones yellowifh : the central florets 

 are hermaphrodite, and fl;reak'd with yellow 

 lines i the female ones are extremely fine and 

 flender. 



CONYZA. Gen. pi. 950. 

 Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Calyx imbricatus, 



fubrotundus. Cor. radii trifldi. 

 CONY^ZA foliis lanceolatis acutis, caule herbaceo 

 Jquarrofa i. ^^^y^bofo, calycibus fquarrofls. Lin.XyJl. nat. p. 



547' Sp' P^- ^^^5' ^^^^' ^^' '^9^* ^^^^' ^^^^''^' ^' ^^' 

 /. I. Moris, hift.f. 7. /. 19- /• 23.; 



Plowman's Spikenard. Anglis, 



In 



