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Leaves strapshaped-oblanceolate or oblong-oblanccolatc, apiculate. 
Anthodes in the primary cluster 10 to 20, half sunk in cottony 
wool, overtopped by 1 or 2 leaves immediately beneath it. 
Pericline sharply-angled pyramidal, with the five sides grooved ; 
phyllaries boat - shaped, acuminate, with red scarious glabrous 
points. "Whole plant with yellowish cottony wool. 
In sandy fields and by roadsides. Rather rare. It has occurred 
in the counties of Hants, Surrey, Herts, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, 
Cambridge, and York, and is no doubt often passed over as R Ger- 
manica. 
England. Annual. Autumn. 
Very like E. Germanica, but generally with the stems taller, 
more slender and flexuous. Whole plant much yellower. Leaves 
much broader, and slightly narrowed towards the base on the main 
stem. Clusters of anthodes with fewer flowers. Anthodes larger, 
more sharply 5-angled ; the pbyllaries more gradually pointed, 
with the midrib purplish-red and the margins at the apex pale-red. 
Bed-tipped Cudweed. 
SPECIES III. -PI LA GO SPATHULATA. Presl. 
Plate DCCXXXVIII. 
■/,. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLV. Fig. 3. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 37 (bis) and 390. 
Jord. Obs. PI. Nouv. etc., Frag. iii. p. 199. 
F. Jussiiei, Coss & Germ. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. Vol. XX. p. 284. 
F. Germanica, var. spathulata, D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 217. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 
ed. viii. p. 249. 
Central stem short, ascending ; lateral stems spreading, pro- 
cumbent, all proliferously branched at the apex, where there are 
2 to 5 ascending-spreading branches produced immediately below 
the terminal clusters of anthodes ; these branches often again 
{n'oliferously branched. Leaves oblanceolate, apiculate. Anthodes 
in the primary cluster 8 to 15, overtopped by 2 to 5 leaves, which 
Bpread and resemble an involucre. Pericline sharply-angled pyra- 
midal, with the five sides deeply grooved ; phyllaries boat-shaped, 
longly-acuminate, with straw-coloured scarious glabrous points. 
Whole plant with hoary silky wool. 
In sandy fields and waste places and by roadsides. Not un- 
common in the South-east of England, where it has occurred in 
Dorset, Hants, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Herts, Essex, and Cambridge. 
England. Annual. Autumn. 
