186 45. coMPosiTiB. 



11. (13.) PrLA'oo Linn. Cudweed. 



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



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

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

 wool forming axillary and terminal clusters not surrounded and 

 oyertopped by 1., phyll. longitudinally folded linear cuspidate 

 with glabrous points. — E. B. 946. F. 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 iuat below it 2 erect branches which are again 

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

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

 Tips of phyll. yellow, rarely reddish. — Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. 



E. S. I. 



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

 summit, I. all oblong blunt apiculate, heads prominently 5-angled 

 half-sunk in wool forming lateral axiUary and terminal clusters 

 eurrounded and overtopped by 1 — 2 blunt I., phyll. boatahaped 

 cuspidate with glabrous points. — E. B. 8. 2998. 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. 



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 l, 

 phyll. cuspidate boatahaped with glabrous points. — F. B. S. 

 2997. F. Jussisei 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. 



vn. VIII. E. 



** Phyll. at length spreading. 



4. F. min'ima (Fr.) ; st. forked, 1. linear-lanceolate acute flat 

 adpresaed, heads pyramidal in lateral and terminal clusters 

 longer than the leaves, phyll. bluntish cottony with glabrous 

 points. — F. B. 1157. Onaphalium 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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