178 45. COMPOSITE. 



procumbent before ioweving, phyll. ovate glabrous with a scarious 

 margin. — E. B. 338. — Barren st. csespitose. Flowering st. slen- 

 der, \ — 2 feet long, ascending when the flowers appear, leafy, 

 smooth. Florets yellow, those of disk sterile; involucre purphsh. 

 —Sandy heaths in Norf. and Suif., rare. fBelfast. P. VIII. IX. 



E.I. 



3. A. vulgaris (L.) ; heads ovate heterogamous, I. woolly and 

 white beneath pinnatifidwiiA lanceolate acuminate cut and serrated 

 segments, phyll. woolly. — E. B. 978.— St. 2 — 3 feet high, erect, 

 leafy. Clusters leafy, nearly simple, erect. Fl. few, reddish or 

 brownish yellow. — Waste ground. P. VII. — IX. Mugwort. 



4. A. mariiima (L.) ; heads oblong, ^oreis few all perfect, I. 

 downy pinnatifd with linear obtuse segments, phyll. oblong outer 

 woolly inner scarious. — E. B. 1706. — St. recumbent or ascend- 

 ing, woolly, much branched . Florets reddish-yellow. Racemes 

 drooping. — /3. A. gallica (Willd.); laeemes more dense, heads 

 erect. E. B. 1001. — y. A. salina (Willd.) ; racemes unilateral, 

 heads drooping. — Salt marshes. P. VIII. IX. 



\_A. carulescens (L.) ; heads oblong, fits, few all perfect, I. 

 hoary lanceolate undivided pinnatifid on the barren shoots. — 

 E. B. 2426.— Boston. Isle of Wight. Not a native. P. VIII. 

 IX.] 



18. (19.) Tanacetum lAnn. Tansy. 



1. T. vulgare (L.) ; 1. bipinnatifid. Its. serrated. — E. B. 1229. 

 — Heads in a terminal corymb. Fl. golden-yellow. Fr. with an 

 entire crown. St. 2 — 3 feet high. — Way-sides. P. VIII. 



Section 3. GNAPHALIE^. Heads homogamous or hete- 

 rogamous, discoid. Anthers with appendages. Branches of the 

 styles of the hermaphrodite florets truncate. Pappus pilose or 

 setaceous, rarely 0. 



19. (13.) FiLAGO Linn. Cudweed. 



1. F. germanica (L.); cottony, st. proliferous at the summit, 

 1. lanceolate wavy acute, heads obscurely 5-angled half sunk in 

 tomentum forming axillary and terminal clusters not surrounded 

 and overtopped by 1., phyll. longitudinally folded hnear cuspidate 

 with glabrous points. — Gnaphalium Sm., E. B. 946. — Grey. St. 

 erect or ascending, 4 — 12 in. long, usually simple below, bearing 

 a solitary terminal cluster of heads, afterwards producing from 

 just below it 2 erect branches which are again proliferous. Heads 

 20 — 40 in each cluster; re-entering angles obsolete; 1. nearest to 

 the cluster much narrowed upwards and acute. Tips of phyll. 

 yellow, rarely reddish. — Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. 



