502 SYNGENES1A: POLYGAMIA NECESSAKIA. 



lOwilh florets occupy the difc of the flower<, 

 which are tubular, quadrifid at the rim, and 

 barren : but the female florets are numerous 

 and fertile, very flender, bifid at the rim, and 

 grow between the fcales of the caly^^ The feeds 

 are all crowned with pappus or down, but fp 

 extremely fugacious as to pafs unreguarded by 

 Limiceus, 

 The plant has a drying aftringent quality, the 

 powder and deco6tion of it have fometimes been 

 ufed with fuccefs in Diarrhasas and dy ferneries. 

 The farmers in England were accuftomed former- 

 ly to give it their cattk to reftore the faculty 

 of chewing their cud, whence it acquired the 

 Engffjh name of cudweeds 



montana 2. FILAGO caule fubdichotomo eredlo, fioribus 

 conicis terminalibus axillaribufque. Syji. nat, 

 $(^0. Sp.pl. 131 1. (Ger, em. 641./. 9. Moris 

 hift. / 7. /. II. /. 3. Pet. herb, t. 18. /". 11. 

 melior,) 



Lead cudweed. Anglk, 



Upon walls and other dry barren places. Weob- 

 ferved it in Sirath-^ay^ &c. O VII. VIII. 



The plant is five or fix inches high, ere6t, and 

 covered with the like cotton down as the pre- 

 ceding. The leaves are numerous, linear, and 

 acute. The flowers grow from two to four in 

 a duller, at the angles and extremitiesl of the 

 branches. The calyx is pentagonal, furrow'd, 

 of a whitifh green colour, (hining at the top, 



and 



