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11. (13.) FiLA'GO Linn. em. Gaertn. Cudweed. 
* Phyll. not spr'eadi^ig tvith the ripe fruit, in 2 rou'S. 
1. 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. — E. B. 946. /'. 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 ; furrows obscure ; 
1. nearest to the cluster much nari'owed upwards and acute. 
Tips of phyll. yellow, rarely reddish. — Dry fields. A. VII. VIII. 
E. S. I. 
2. apiciddta (G. E. Sm.) ; cottony, st. proliferous at the 
summit,/, all oblong blunt apiculate, Aeac/.s prominently a-aiu/led 
half-sunk in wool forming lateral axillary and terminal c7«.?^ers 
surrounded and overto^ijjed by 1 — 2 blunt I., phyll. boatshaped 
cuspidate with glabrous points. — Sy. E. B. 737. F. lutescem 
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 j ust 
below it : 1. nearest to the cluster scarcely narrowed upwards, 
blunt apiculatf. Tips of pbyll. purple. — Sandy places. A. VII. 
VIII. E. 
3. F. spathuldta (Presl) ; silky, st. proliferous, 1. oblong- 
obovate, heads prominently b-an(/led not deeply sunk ii> wool 
forming axillary and terminals ustersovertopped by 2 — 3 acute I., 
phyll. cuspidate boatshaped with glabrous points. — Jussirei 
C. & G. Atl. Fl. Par. t. 26. Sy. E. B. 738.— Whitish. St. 
usually branched from near its base ; branches mostly hori- 
zontal. Heads larger than those of Sp. 1, 8 — 1 5 in each cluster ; 
furrows very deep. Tips of phyll. yellow. — Dry fields. A. VII. 
VIII. E. 
** Phyll. at length spreading. . 
4. F. min ima (Vers.) ■. .'•■^/orAiec/, 1. linear-lanceolate acute./?a< 
adpressed, heads pyramidal in lateral and terminal clusters 
longer than the leaves, phyll. b/untish cottony with glabrous 
points. — E. B. 1157. 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. A"I. — IX. E. S. 1. 
