SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMiA NLXESSARiA. 50. 



POLYGAMIA NTCESSARIA. 



FILAGO. Gen. f., 995. 



Recept nudum. Pappus nullus. CaL imbricaru.. 

 FlofaiU feminei inter fquamis calycis locati. 

 Zermanicai FILAGO panicula dichotoma, florlbus rotundatis 

 axillaribus hirfutis, foliis acutis. Sp.pl. 131 i. 

 (Ger.emac 642. /. lo. Pet. herb. I. iS. f. g 6r 

 10. Moris hift.f. -j.t.ii.f. lo.) 

 Childing Cudweed. Jnglis. 



In corn-fields and barren grounds not uncommon. 

 o. VII. VIII. 



This plant grows eredl, and varies from ?ix ro 

 twelve inches in height : the whole covered wirh 

 a downy fubftance like cotton. The principal 

 ilalk is properly undivided, and ternunated wirh 

 a clofe globular head of flowers : but the 

 branches which grow afterwards from its fum- 

 mit, in the more adult plant, are widely dicho- 

 tomous, and then all the fph^rules of flowers, 

 except thofe which terminate the branches, be- 

 come fellile and axillary. The leaves are nu 

 merous, linear and acute, growing without or- 

 der, and nearly ered, having their Tides prefTed 

 a little towards the ilalk and branches. \L-^ch 

 flower in the fpha^rule has a pyramidal calyj: 

 with five angles, which calyx confifts of imbri- 

 cated, acute, fufcous, fhining fcales with yellow- 

 illbi edges. Two or three hermaphrodite yel- 



