XER0TIEM. 
489 
strongly carinate, inner 5 scarious naked shining narrower 
linear-lanceolate acute not longer than the pappus ; ach. pale 
oblong or elliptic frosted with glittering spherical dots or pa- 
pillae. — Pers. ii. 422 ; “ Fr. Nov. 2G8 ; ” Koch 398 ; Gren. et 
Godr. ii. 193 ; Bah. 179 ; RFG. xvi. t. 55. f. i. ; Willk. et Lange 
ii. 55. Gnaphalium minimum Ray Syn. 181 ; Sm. in EB. 1157 ; 
Sm. E. FI. iii. 417; Hook. FI. Scot. i. 241 ; a Lois. FI. Gall. ii. 
226.” Filayo montana DC. vi. 248; Coss. et Germ. ii. 408 (not 
Linn.). Gnaphalium mmtanum 8 Lam. Enc. ii. 760. Filayo ar- 
vensis DC. vi. 248 quoad solum hab. u Maderae ” (not Linn.). — 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3, cc ; GD. reg. 2, rr. Mountain pastures 
everywhere above 3000 ft., e. g. about the Primeira Vista do 
Curral, up the Caminho do Meio, Pico da Silva, towards the Pico 
do Areeiro, &<?. ; highest peaks in the GD. June, July. — St. 2-6 
in. high stiffly erect single or with numerous ascending side st. 
from the crown, each mostly fork-branched at top but often 
in the short mountain turf simple dwarfed and bearing only 
one or two confluent sessile glomerules of heads. Whole pi. 
adpressedly cottony greyish-w. L. numerous erect and imbri- 
cately crowded on the st. 2-3 lines long, \ line broad. Heads 
small scarcely more than one line long conical angular pale 
greenish straw-colour or brownish collected in indistinct sub- 
confluent or (towards the ends of the branches) subspicate 
small glomerules, which are tomentose and surrounded by 
several involucral 1. or leafy bracts shorter or not overtopping 
the glomerules themselves. Tips of the scales acute but not 
subulate or aristate or longer than the pappus. 
Some Mad. spec, of this ph, sent by me to the late Chev. 
DeCandolle, wrongly ticketed u F. yermanica ,” and referred by 
him in reply in litt. 15 Feb. 1834 to u F. montana ,” were most 
probably his sole authority for attaching afterwards the ha- 
bitat “ Maderae ” to his F. arvensis L. (Prodr. vi. 248) — RFG. 
xvi. t. 55. f. ii. ; Willk. et Lange FI. Ilisp. ii. 56 — a pi. not 
reallv hitherto discovered in Mad. and which is, according- to 
Koch (ed. 2) 398 and Hartmann (Annot. PL Scand. Herb. Linn, 
pp. 140, 141), a mere form (/3 arvensis Hartm.= “ F. montana b 
Fr. Novit. ed. 2. 267 ”) of F montana L. 
No spec, of F. minima (Sm.) exists in the Linnaean Herb., 
and it appears to have been quite unknown to him. 
27. Nerotium Bluff et Fing. (partim). 
1. X. gallicum (L.). 
Greyish or silvery gr. somewhat sparingly and thinly silky- 
tomentose ; st. slender erect bushy, branched at the base and 
