PL ex. caL 
462 227. Filago. 39. COMPOSITE, C. 
Gnaphalium minus, seu Herba impia, Raii Syn. 180, 3 ; Park. 685. 
-Filago seu Herba impia, Ger. em. 6-12, 10. 
Gnaphalium Germanicum, Hudson FI. Angl. 362. 
Filago Germanica, Lin. S. P. 1811. 
Gnaphalium dichotomum, Stokes Bot. Med. 203. 
Lofgia, Cassine , Journ. Plxilom. 1819. 
Herb impious . Wicked cudweed. Childing cudweed. 
Fields and waysides; annual; July and August. 
Stem 2 feet high ; leaves stem-clasping, both sides woolly; 
flowers the younger overtop the elder. — Used in the bloody 
flux both of man and beast. 
LIII. 228. CONYZA. Hippocrates. Ploughmans- spikenards 
Pericline ovate, cylindrical ; scales lanceolate, outer 
scales leaflike, tip bent back, spreading; inner cartilagi- 
nous, straight, fringed ; calathides slightly radiated ; flowers 
all fertile; of the centre hermaphrodite, funnelshape, 5-cut; 
of the rays female, very small, 3-cut; ligulae very short, 
slender; ciinanthus flat, tubercular, rough; akenium angu- 
lar, furrowed ; pappus hairlike, rough. — Herb downy ; leaves 
not cut. ; radical petioled ; calathides corymbose, crowded ; 
corollce yellow. 
Conyza squarrosa. Rough ploughmans-spikenard . 
Leaves ovate, lanceolate, downy ; upper leaves oblong, 
lanceolate, not cut. 
Baccharis Monspeliensium, Raii Syn. 179, 1; Ger. em. 792; Park. 114. 
Conyza squarrosa, Lin. S. P. 1205. 
Great Fleabane. 
Chalky pastures and waysides ; biennial ; July and Aug. 
Stem 3 feet high ; radical leaves ovate, crenate.-— Leaves 
scented, bitter and acrid. 
LIV. 229. PULICARIA. Gaza. Fleabane . 
Pericline roundish ; scales imbricate, nearly equal, all 
linear, pointed, tips spread out ; calathides radiated ; flowers - 
of the centre hermaphrodite; of the circumference female, 
many ; ligulae slender, linear, 3-toothed, recurved ; anthers 
with a long, bristlelike basillary appendix; ciinanthus ho- 
neycombed ; cells fringed ; akenium rounded, hirsute ; pap- 
pus double; outer membranaceous, toothed; inner hair- 
like, rays few, longer than the seed, deciduous. — Herb 
downy ; leaves stem-clasping ; pericline downy ; branches longer 
than the main stem. 
