COMPOSITE. 71 
In dry fields, by roadsides, on waste places and wall-tops. 
Rather scarce, but generally distributed, except in the extreme 
JSorth of Scotland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Autumn. 
Stem wiry, 1 to 9 inches high, solitary or several from the crown 
of tin 1 root, sometimes unbranched except in the upper half, some- 
times with short branches almost from the base; branches from 
beneath the primary cluster and from a little below it elongated, 
simple or again dichotomous, with clusters of anthodes remotely 
arranged in lax spikes on the ultimate branches. Clusters about £ 
inch in diameter, rather lax. Anthodes -J inch long. Phyllaries 
spreading when the fruit is ripe and densely cottony. 
Slender Cudweed. 
German, Kleinstes Schimmelkraut. 
SPECIES V— F ILAGO GALLIC A. Linn. 
Plate DCCXL. 
ReMi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLVII. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 40. 
Logfia Gallica, Coss <fe Germ. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. Yol. XX. p. 290. Reich. 1. c. 
L. subulata, Cass. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 194. 
Gnaphalium Gallicum, Huds. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2369. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. 
p. 304. 
Stem erect, much branched, some of the branches proliferous, 
others not ; branches again branched, ascending - spreading, with 
the heads remotely arranged in lax spikes on the ultimate branches. 
Leaves linear-subulate, attenuated towards the apex. Anthodes in 
the clusters 2 to 6, not sunk in wool, overtopped by the leaves im- 
mediately beneath them. Pericline conical-pyramidal ; phyllaries 
concave, lanceolate, subacute, cottony on the back, with glabrous 
brownish points. Outer row of female florets with the ovary rolled 
uj> in the outer palea) of the clinanth. "Whole plant grey, with 
silky wool. 
In sandy fields at Berechurch, near Colchester, Essex; for- 
merly found at Castle Hedingham, near Ilalsted, in the same 
county, but has not been recently looked for there. It also 
baa occurred in Herts and Berkshire; and the Rev. W. "W. New- 
bould informs me there is a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium 
collected by Lightfoot near Ivcr, Bucks. 
England. Annual. Autumn. 
