G8 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
duced immediately below the terminal cluster of anthodes ; these 
branches often again proliferously branched. Leaves strapshaped- 
lanceolate, tapering to the apex. Anthodes in the primary cluster 
20 to 40, half sunk in cottony wool, not overtopped by the 
leaves immediately beneath it. Pericline pyramido-conical, with 
5 angles, the five sides not furrowed ; phyllaries cuspidate, with 
yellow scarious glabrous points. Whole plant with grey or hoary 
cottony wool. 
In dry fields and banks. Very common in England, less so in 
Scotland, and not found North of Ross-shire. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Autumn. 
Stem single or several from the crown of the root, 3 inches to 
1 foot high, generally simple, but sometimes racemosely-branched 
in very luxuriant specimens. Leaves narrow, often slightly un- 
dulated. Clusters of anthodes sessile, spherical, about \ inch in 
diameter, almost always with 2 branches springing from beneath 
it on opposite sides, these terminated by a smaller cluster, which 
also has frequently dichotomous proliferous branches from beneath 
it. Anthodes -J- inch long. Phyllaries folded. Eemale flowers 
generally without pappus, perfect ones with a pappus of denticulated 
hairs as long as the phyllaries. Achenes very minute, olive, 
slightly shilling. Whole plant hoary white or grey. 
Common Cudweed. 
French, Cotonnier Commun. German, Beutsches Schimmelkraut. 
This abundant little annual is found very constantly on waste places and meadows. 
It has an erect stem of six or eight inches high, on the top of which is a downy 
globular head of flowers of pale yellow : from immediately beneath this head spriug 
several branches, each terminated by a similar head of flowers. This singular mode of 
growth caused the old botanists to call this plant Hcrba impia, as if the offspring 
were undutifully exalting themselves above the parent. 
SPECIES II.— F I L A G O A P I C U L A T A. G. E. Sm. 
Plate DCCXXXVII. 
Rdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLV. 
BiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 37 to: G. E. Smith, Thyt. 1846, p. 575. 
F. lutescens, Jord. Obs. PI. Nouv. etc., Frag. iii. p. 201. 
F. Germanica, var. j3, Hook. & Am. Brit. FL ed. viii. p. '219. 
F. Germanica, var. a, lutescens, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 192. 
Stems erect or ascending, usually simple below, proliferously 
branched at the apex, where a pair of ascending-erect branches or 
a single one is produced immediately below the terminal cluster 
of anthodes : these branches often again proliferously branched. 
