FILAGO. 
487 
There are two sheets of this pi. in BII. named in pencil 
u G. purpureum ” — one, “Herb. Mill.,” in an unknown hand, 
the other, “ Hort. Vindob. Jacq.,” by Dryander. The true 
G. purpureum L. (Dill. Elth. t. 109. f. 132) seems very distinct. 
26. Filago L. 
§ 1. Scales of inv. cuspidate opposite in 5 rows, not finally 
radiant ; recept. naked filiform. (Godr.) 
fl. F. micropodioides Lange. 
Loosely thickly and copiously grey-tomentose or densely 
woolly. St. numerous from the crown of the root decumbent 
or ascending, often procumbent, rarely with an erect main st., 
2—3 times proliferously 2-3-fork-branched leafy ; 1. linear- 
lanceolate or ligulate acute or subobtuse and mucronate loosely 
erecto-patent crowded but not imbricate or narrowing at the 
base, the lower only sometimes spathulate ; heads small half 
buried in loose tomentum aggregate 10-15 together in ses- 
sile globose or hemispherical leafy involucrate very woolly 
tufts or glomernles in the forks or at the ends of the branches, 
the involucral br. or 1. numerous gr. conspicuous woolly acute 
or mucronate equalling or a little exceeding the tufts of heads 
and forming a distinct frill or coronet beneath them ; scales of 
inv. linear-lanceolate carinately nerved and cuspidate or aris- 
tato-acuminate, woolly halfway up or more, their fine subu- 
late or awn-like erecto-patent points naked shining pale greenish 
straw-colour, often partly red or crimson, finally pale brown, 
conspicuously prominent and produced beyond the tomentum, 
longer than the pappus. — Willk. et Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 55. 
F. germanica Buch 195. no. 273 (not Linn.) ; WB. ii. 305 par- 
tim? (excl. syn.). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, rr; SD. reg. 2, rr; 
“ Desertas,” S r Moniz. Cliao da Ilibeira above Seixal in diy 
bed of the torrent ; Quinta do Pico do Infante near Funchal, a 
weed in the garden ; “ Sitio do Til in Rib. Brava,” S r Moniz. 
S. Des a at top. May-July. — St. numerous from the crown 
4-6 in. high ascending or decumbent rarely and then only at 
first with an erect main st. not longer than the rest, often pro- 
cumbent and forming mostly a bushy tuft branched all the 
way up. L. crowded numerous but altogether (especially the 
lower) loose and scattered, those of the st. erecto-patent nar- 
row-oblong or ligulate, the lower sometimes broader and sub- 
spathulate, all either subacute or mucronate. Heads or an- 
thodia about the size of those of F. canescens or F. en'oecphala, 
Jord. Obs. t. 7. ff. A, D, suberect or indistinctly (not stellately) 
spreading, deeply plunged halfway up or more in tomentum , ag- 
gregate 10-15 together in hemispherical conspicuously multi- 
