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SYNGENESIA 498 





PCRFU GWAPHALIUM. 



Jloot perennial. Stem 6 to 12 or 15 inches high, slender, simple, clothed with a 

 white tomentum. Leaves 3 fourths of an inch loan inch and half long, and 1 fourth 



1 third of an inch wide, alternate, oblanceolatc, or ohlong-spatulate, rather 

 obtuse slightly mucronate, entire, tapering to the base, sessile, the upper surface 



en 8om cwhat lanuginous, the under surface densely clothed with a white to- 

 mentum. Heads of flowers small, in compact axillary and terminal sessile clus- 

 ters * involucre somewhat ventricose, lanuginous at base, the leaflets oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, smooth, of a dingy purplish tawny, or leaden color ; florets very 

 ilender, white, with a minute purplish limb. Akenes obconic-oblong, small, mi- 

 nutely scabrous; pappus capillary, scabrous, white. Receptacle flat, roughish- 

 dotted. 

 Hob. Dry, open woodlands ; clearings, &c. frequent. Fl. July-Aug. Fr. Aug-Sept. 



J. G. T7LJGIW08UM, Z. Stem diffusely branched, lanuginous ; leaves 

 linear-oblanceolate, tomentose on both sides ; heads of flowers in dense 

 terminal clusters, shorter than the leaves at their base. Beck, hot. 



p. 178. 



Filago uliginosa, Lindl. Ency. p. 744. 



Mint, or Marsh Gnaphalium. Vulgo — Marsh Cud-weed. 

 Moot annual. Stem 4 to 6 or 8 inches high, bushy, or much branched from the 

 base, leafy, very woolly. Leaves about an inch long, and 1 or 2 lines wide, lance- 

 linear and linear-oblanceolate, acute, slightly mucronate, entire, tapering gradu- 

 ally to the base, sessile. Heads of flowers small, in dense clusters in the bosoni 

 of the leaves at the summit of the branches; involucre very woolly at base, the 

 leaflets lanceolate, acute, smooth and shining, yellowish-tawny. Akenes oboYoid- 

 ©blong, smooth ; pappus capillary. Receptacle flat, minutely scrobiculate, or 

 Irregularly pitted. 



Bab. Low grounds; exsiccated ponds, &c. frequent. Fi. July-Aug. Fr. Aug-Sept- 



3. G. obrmakicum, Sm. Stem mostly dichotomous, or proliferously 

 branched above; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, tomentose ; heads few- 

 flowered, in subglobose clusters, terminal and dichotomal ; leaflet* of 

 the involucre cuspidate. Beck, Hot. p. 1 78. 

 Filago germanica. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 422. Lindl Ency. p. 742. 

 Gifola. Less. Sy7i. p. 333. 



German Gkaphalium. Vulgo — Common Cud-weed. 



Root annual. Stem 6 to 9 inches high, lanuginous, mostly dichotomous abov*. 

 or with 2 or more proliferous and often divaricate branches at summit, sometime* 

 nearly simple, and occasionally with numerous principal branches from near the 

 root. Leaves alternate, numerous, half an inch to 3 quarters in length, and 1 to 

 I or 4 lines wide, lance-linear, or oblong, acute, entire, erect, sessile and semi- 

 amplexicaul, woolly on both sides. Heads of flowers small, in dense roundish - 

 ofoid capitate clusters, which are solitary, leafy at base, terminal and dichotomal : 

 involucre woolly at base, the leaflets lanceolate, with a subulate acuminatiofi. 

 •mooth, scarious, pale tawny, or straw-colored, with a green midrib or keel ;Jlorej* 

 ?sry slender. Akenes oblong, minutely scabrous ; pappus capillar/. Receptartr 

 small, convex, tuberculate. 



Jhi. Dry hills; old fields, roadsides, c\c. not very common. Ft. July. /V. A*g 



Ob*. This species it pretty common on the northtm side of the County : btM 

 raihtr scares in lbs central and southern portiooe. 



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