COMPOSITE. 



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in England, Ireland, and southern Scotland, but perhaps frequently 

 overlooked owing to its small size. Fl. the whole summer. 



9. Narrow Cudweed. G-naphalium gallicum, Huds. 

 (Fig. 530.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2369. Fllago, Brit. Fl.) 



Very near the ji eld C, but much more 

 branched, the leaves almost subulate and 

 much longer, the clusters of flower-heads 

 very numerous and small, the leaves 

 which surround them longer than the 

 involucres, whilst in the last two they 

 are mostly shorter. Involucres very 

 small and conical, containing but very 

 few florets. Some of the outermost row 

 are embraced as it were each by one of 

 the inner bracts of the involucre, with a 

 row of receptacular scales between them 

 and the next row, thus distinguishing 

 this species from small specimens of the . 

 marsh C, which it sometimes resem- 

 bles. 



In fields and sandy wastes, in western 

 and southern Europe, becoming rare in 

 Germany. Yery local in Britain, having 

 been chiefly recorded from some of the eastern counties of England. 

 FL summer. 



Fig. 530. 



XVII. SENECIO. SEKECIO. 



Herbs (or, in some exotic species, shrubs), with alternate, toothed or 

 divided, rarely entire leaves. Flower-heads in terminal corymbs ; the 

 florets of the disk yellow and tubular, those of the ray also yellow (or, 

 in some exotic species, blue, purple, or white), spreading, or rarely 

 wanting. Involucre cylindrical or nearly hemispherical, with 1 or 2 

 rows of linear bracts of equal length, often tipped with brown, usually, 

 but not always, accompanied by a few small outer bracts at their base. 

 Receptacle without scales. Achenes cylindrical, with a pappus of 

 simple hairs, usually soft and white. Branches of the style truncate at 

 the top, usually with a tuft of minute hairs. 



