liellis.] COMPOSITE. 257 



localities where it once abounded, see a paper by Mr. E. Lees, in Phytol. No. 96, 

 for May, 1849. . f i- J , 1 



XI. FiLAGO, Linn. Filago. 



" Heads heterogamous, with one or more rows of filiform, 

 pistillate florets in the circumference. Pappus pilose, of the 

 outermost row of pistillate florets very caducous or wanting. Re- 

 ceptacle conical, with 1 — 5 rows of scales within or among the fili- 

 form florets. Involucre imbricated, conical, of a few acuminated 

 scariose scales. Anthers with bristles at the base. Style of the 

 perfect florets with short truncated branches ciliated at the apex." 

 —Br. Fl. 



1. F. germanica, L. Common Filago. "Stem erect usually 

 proliferous at the summit, leaves downy, heads globose-capitate 

 in the axils of the branches and terminal, scales of the involucre 

 cottony with the points cuspidate and glabrous." — Br. Fl. p. 233. 

 Gnaphalium, Hucls. : E. B. t. 946. 



\p. " Heads sharply pentagonal, scales yellowish white, leaves of a leaden gray 

 colour, spathulate. F. spathulata, Presl." — Br, FL — Edrs.] 



In dry pastures, fields, waste and fallow-ground, on hedgebants, by roadsides, 

 &c. ; very universally. -F/. June — September. 0. 



[j3. From Hulverstone to Kingstone, in many places ; rather common near 

 Brighstone, on the green-sand, A. G. More, Esq. — Edrs.] 



Achenes very minute, pale brown or grayish, obovate-oblong, somewhat angular 

 and compressed, sprinkled wilh extremely short pellucid points, like bristles, 

 directed downwards. Pappus white, pilose, single-rowed, several (4 or 6j times 

 longer than the seed, roughish, spreading and recurved, deciduous. 



2. F. minima, Pers. Least Filago. " Stem erect dichoto- 

 mously branched, leaves linear - lanceolate acute cottony flat 

 appressed, heads conical few in lateral and axillary tufts which 

 are longer than the leaves." — Br. Fl. p. 233. Gnaphalium, Sm. : 

 E. B. t. 1157. F. montana, DC. (not Linn.) 



On barren sandy or gravelly heaths, banks and pastures, but apparently not 

 very coramon. Fl. June — September. ©.; 



E. Med. — By Sibbeck's farm, near Niton. Sandy field at the foot of Queen 

 Bower. On Bleak down, in several places. Gravel-pit on St. George's down. 

 Sandy field on the descent from St. George's down to Arreton, in plenty. 



W. Med. — On Buck's heath, between Kingston and Shorwell, in plenty. 



** Pappus none, membrunous, or of 2 or 3 bristles, 

 f Receptacle witUout membranous scales (paleae). 



XII. Bellis, Linn. Daisy. 



" Achenes compressed, with a minute epigynous disk. Pappus 

 none. Receptacle naked, conical. Involucre hemispherical, its 

 scales obtuse, equal, in a single row. (Florets of the disk yellow, 

 those of the ray white tinged with red)." — Br. Fl. 



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