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ami female. Anthers with the lobes produced into tails at the 
base. Branches of the style in the iW-tile flowers linear-convex 
riKilly, ilat internally, without a pencil at the apex. Achencs 
cylindrical or compressed, without ribs. Pappus hairy, rarely 
ahsent, at least in the perfect ilorets. 
GENUS XIV.— F I L A G O. Tournef. 
Ant bodes heterogamous, discoid, several-flowered. Clinanth 
cylindrical or conical, or flattened at the summit, naked in the 
centre, but with palese resembling the phyllaries at the circum- 
ference. Pericline ovate-prismatic, 5-sided, of rather few im- 
bricated concave or keeled scarious phyllaries, arranged in several 
lows. Florets all tubular, those in the centre perfect, surrounded 
by several rows of female florets with filiform corollas, situated 
in the axils of palese resembling the phyllaries. Achenes oblan- 
late-fusiform or -ovoid, compressed, papillose. Pappus of the 
fertile flowers of filiform hairs, that of the external flowers caducous 
or absent. 
Annual herbs, with alternate woolly leaves and anthodes 
arranged in heads or clusters, with proliferous branches springing 
from beneath them. Phyllaries grey, brown, or yellowish. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from the word. Filam, a thread, in 
allusion to the cottony fleecy covering of the plants. 
Section L— GIPOLA. Cass. 
Pericline 5-angled-pyramidal, w r ith the phyllaries opposite, 
acuminate or cuspidate, in 5 rows, not spreading like a star when 
the fruit is mature. Clinanth elongated, filiform. Anthodes 
woolly at the base, collected into compact spherical clusters. 
SPECIES I.— PI LA GO GEPoEEANICA. Linn. 
Plate DCCXXXVI. 
Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLV. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. 
inescens, Jord. Obs. PI. Nouv. etc., Frag. iii. p. 202. 
ermanica, var. «, Hook, & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. [». 249. 
V. Germamca, ,> canescens, Gr. it Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 192. 
iphalium Germanieum, Sm. Eug. Bot. No. 946. 
St^ms erect or ascending, usually simple below, proliferously 
branched at the apex, where a pair of ascending branches arc pro- 
