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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
top, branches dichotomously paniculate ; 1. linear narrow-elon- 
gate acuminate, the upper erect, lower squarroselv spreading 
or recurved ; heads ovato-pyramidal or conoidal, prominently 
but obtusely 3-5-angular closely cottony nearly to the top, the 
tip only naked scarious and coloured, sessile in distant leafy knots 
of 2 or 3-5 or 6 together in all the forks or at the ends of the 
branches or short lateral branehlets, involucrate conspicuously 
with several bracteating 1. much longer than themselves; outer 
scales of inv. 5 lanceolate gibbous at the base woolly as long as 
the inner which are scarious pale brown or straw-coloured, all 
acute or subobtuse and not longer than the pappus ; inner ach. 
as in Filago minima (Sm.). — Bluff et Fingerh. “ FI. Germ. ii. 
344.” Filago gallica Linn. Sp. ii. 1312 ; Vill. Daupli. iii. 195; 
Desf. ii. 307 ; Brot. i. 302 ; Pers. ii. 422 ; 1)0. ! ti. 248 ; Koch 
398 ; Seub. FI. Az. 32 ; WB. ii. 307 ; Bab. 179 ; RFG. xvi. t. 56. 
f. i. ; Willk. et Lange iii. 56. Gnaphalium gallicum Lam. Enc. 
ii. 759; EB. 2369; Sm. E. FI. iii. 417. G. vulgare medium 
Moris. § 7. t. 11. f. 14. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, r. Fields 
and roadsides ; east of the Mount Church on the brink of the 
Curral dos Romeiros ; road to Cani^o above the Brazen Head ; 
Pray a behind the beach at S ta Cruz ; 3 or 4 miles up the Ma- 
cliico valley ; cornfields, S ta Anna towards Pico Ruivo ; S. Vi- 
cente towards the Forno de Cal, See. July-Sept. — At once 
distinguished by its long very narrow more or less squarrose 1. 
and heads in leafy knots rather than glomerules, giving it much 
the habit of a Scleranthus . St. 4-6 or 8 in. high mostly re- 
peatedly fork-branched and bushy upwards with numerous 
ascending side branches at the base or crown, all very slender 
loosely and thinly silvery ■ -toinentose. L. about 4 or 5 lines 
long, scarcely half a line broad, Hat, finely pointed, somewhat 
greener or more thinly cottony than in Fi/ago minima. Heads 
inconspicuous yet rather larger (H-lf line long) more swollen 
at the base and drawn out at the top than in that pi., with 
merely the tip naked and pale brown or straw-coloured and 
sometimes tinged with red, the rest below w. and woolly, col- 
lected in distinct subremote inconspicuous leafy knots of from 
2 or 3 to rarely 7 or 8 together ; the several (rarely 1 or 2) in- 
volucrating br. or 1. rising conspicuously above them. Scales 
of inv. iu 3 rows. Ach. ribless, the inner free and sprinkled 
with glittering dots, the outer row enclosed each in one of t lie 
middle row of involucral scales cohering round it into a hard 
thickened tube or pseudopericarp, without dots or pappus. 
I must here earnestly invoke all botanists to unite in utterly 
repudiating and putting down such scandalously childish, bald 
and witless trickery with names as the anagrammatic forma- 
tions by Cassini of Logfia, Gifula , Oglifa , IJtoga , &c. from Ft- 
