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11. (13.) FiLA'GO Idnn. Cudweed. 



* Phyll. not spreading with the ripe fruit, in 2 rows. 



1. F. german'ica (L.) ; cottony, st. proliferous at the summit, 

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

 wool forming axillary and terminal clusters not surrounded and 

 overtopped by 1., phyll. longitudinally folded linear cuspidate 

 with glabrous points.^^. B. 946. P. canescens Jord. — Grey. 

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

 bearing a solitary terminal cluster of heads, afterwards pro- 

 ducing from just below it 2 erect branches which are again 

 proliferous. Heads 20 — 40 in each cluster ; farrows obscure ; 

 1. nearest to the cluster much narrowed upwards and acute. 

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



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2. F. apicaldta {Or. E. Sm.) ; cottony, st. proliferous at the 

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

 half-sunk in wool forming lateral axillary and terminal clusters 

 surrounded and overtopped hy 1—2 biuret I., phyll. boatshaped 

 cuspidate with glabrous points. — F. lutescens Jord.\ PI. nov. 

 Fr. iii. t. 7. — Greenish. Smelling like Tansy. St. mostly erect, 

 with short erect branches below. Heads larger than in Sp. 1, 

 10 — 20 in a cluster ; furrows 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. VHI. E. 



3. F. spathuldta (Presl); silky, st. proliferous, 1. oblong- 

 obovate, heads prominently 5-angled not deeply sunk in wool 

 forming axillary and terminal clusters overtopped by 2 — 3 acute I., 

 phyll. cuspidate boatshaped with glabrous points. — ^F. Jussiaei 

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

 its base ; branches mostly horizontal. Heads larger than those 

 of Sp. 1, 8 — 15 in each cluster ; furrows very deep. Tips of 

 phyll. yellow.— Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. B. 



** Phyll. at length spreading. 



4. F. min'ima (Fr.) ; st.forhed, 1. linear-lanceolate acute ^ai 

 adpressed, heads pyramidal in lateral and terminal clusters 

 longer than the leaves, phyll. bluntish cottony with glabrous 

 points. — E. B. 1157. Onaphcdium arvense Willd. — St. slender, 

 erect, 2 — 6 in. high, branched, the branches forked ; or prostrate 

 and spreading. Fl. yellowish in very small heads. Whole plant 

 cottony, greyish. — Dry sandy and gravelly places. A . VI.— IX. 



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