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2. F. apiculata (G. E. Sm.); cottony, st. proliferous at the 

 summit, I. all oblong blunt apiculate, heads prominently b-angled 

 half simk in tomentum forming lateral axillary and terminal 

 clusters surrounded and overtopped by 1 — 2 blunt I., phyll. boat- 

 shaped cuspidate with glabrous points. — G. E. Sm. ! in Phytol. 

 ii. 5/5. F. lutescens Jord. ! PL nov. Fr. iii. t. 7- — Greenish. 

 Smelling like Tansy. St. mostly erect, with short branches 

 below. Heads larger than in F. germ., 10 — 20 in a cluster ; re- 

 entering angles deep ; cluster often seeming lateral from only 1 

 branch being produced just below it ; 1. nearest to the cluster 

 scarcely narrowed upwards, blunt, apiculate. Tips of phyll. 

 purple. — Sandy places. A. VII. VIII. E. 



3. F. spathulata (Presl) ; silky, st. 2 — 3-chotomous, 1. oblong- 

 obovate, heads prominently b-angled not deeply sunk in tomentum 

 forming axillary and terminal clusters overtopped by 2—3 acute 

 I., phyll. cuspidate boatshaped with glabrous points. — F. Jussisei 

 Atl. Fl. Par. t. 26. — Whitish. St. usually branched from near 

 its base. Heads larger than those of F. germ., 8 — 15 in each 

 cluster ; re-entering angles very deep. Tips of phyll. yellow. — 

 Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. E. 



4. F. minima (Fr.) ; st. dichotomously branched, 1. linear-lan- 

 ceolate acute flat adpressed, heads pyramidal in lateral and ter- 

 minal clusters longer than the leaves, phyll. bluntish cottony with 

 glabrous points. — E.B. 1157- Gnaphalium Sm. — St. slender, 

 erect, 2 — 6 in. high, branched, the branches dichotomous, or 

 prostrate and spreading. Fl. yellovrish in very small heads. 

 Whole plant cottony, grayish.^ — Dry sandy and gravelly places. 

 A. VI.— IX. 



5. F. gallica (L.) ; st. dichotomously branched, /. Hraear acute, 

 heads conical in axillary terminal clusters shorter than the leaves, 

 outer phyll. cottony with bluntish glabrous points gibbous at the 

 base and inclosing the marginal fr. — E. B. 2369. Gnaphalium 

 Sm. — St. 6 — 8 in. high, slender. L. narrowing upwards from the 

 base, upright, afterwards revolute.— Dry gravelly places, very 

 rare. Bere Church, Essex, 1842. A. VII.— IX. E. 



20. (12.) Gnaphalium Linn. 



1. G.luteo-album^L.); st. simple branched at the base sMghtly 

 corymbose above, heads densely clustered leafless, 1 hnear-oblong 

 wavy woolly on both sides half clasping, lower 1. broader at the 

 end and obtuse, upper 1. narrowing and acute.— jB. B. 1002. — 

 Woolly. St. 3 — 12 in. high, decumbent below, then erect or 

 ascending. Heads aggregated at the extremities of the stem ; 

 involucre straw-coloured; florets tinged with red.— Sandy fields, 

 very rare, t Belfast. Mr. W. Thompson. A. VII. VIII. E. I. 



