PL ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITE, C. 227. Filago. 461 
clinanthus awlshape, naked above, chaffy below, chaffs 
linear, like the scales of the pericline, enclosing the akeriia; 
akenium ovate; pappus hairlike, sessile, rough, deciduous, 
or 0. — Stem forked, branched ; calathides aggregated into 
a calathiphore ; calathiphore ovate, in the forks and ter- 
minal. 
1. Filago minima. Least chafeweed . 
Stem upright, branched ; leaves lanceolate, pointed, flat* 
woolly ; calathides conical, crowded, and solitary, axillary 
and terminal. 
Gnaphalium minimum, Raii Syn. 181,4. 
Filago minor, Ger. em. 641, 9. 
Gnaphalium monianum, Hudson FI. stngl. 362. 
Gnaphalium montanum /8, LamarcJce Enc. Meth. 2, 760. 
Filago montana, Sibthorp Ft. Ox. 262, not of Linna?us. 
Least cudweed. 
Sandy places; annual; July. 
Leaves upright, pressed close, short, both sides woolly. 
2. Filago montana. Mountain chafeweed. 
Stem upright, forked; leaves linear, lanceolate, pressed 
close, tomentose; calathides crowded, axillary or solitary. 
Filago montana, Lin. S. P. 1312. 
Gnaphalium montanum, fVilld. S. P. 1896. 
Sandy places; annual; July. 
Stem upright; 9 inches high, much branched, large? 
and more woolly than the preceding. 
3. Filago filiformis. Threadlike chafeweed. 
Stem upright, forked ; leaves linear, pointed, greyish, 
mlathides crowded, axillary in the forks, and terminal. 
Gnaphalium parvum ramosissisnum foliis angustissimis polyspermon, 
Raii Syn. 181, 5. 
Filago gallica, Lin. S. P. 1312. 
Gnaphalium gallicum, Hudson FI. Angl. 361 . 
Grass-leaved cudweed. 
Sandy fields ; annual ; July and August. 
Stem simple at bottom, much branched above; leaves 
revolute, twisted, both sides woolly. 
4. Filago vulgaris. Common chafeweed . 
Stem upright, forked ; leaves linear, lanceolate, pointed, 
tomentose; calathides many; calathiphore globular, lateral 
and terminal. 
