72 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stem slender, wiry, 3 to 9 inches long, the branches elongated- 
spreading. Leaves very slender, crowded. Anthodes J inch long. 
Achenes of the outer row of female florets so tightly folded up in 
the paleae that they remain attached to the plant until the fall of 
the scales. Whole plant silky. 
Narrow-leaved Cudweed. 
French, Cotonnier en Alene. German, Franzbsisches Schimmelkraut. 
GENUS XV— G NAPHALIUM. Linn. 
Anthodes heterogamous or diceciously homogamous, several- 
or many-flowered, discoid. Clinanth flat or convex, naked. Peri- 
cline hemispherical, campanulate or shortly cylindrical, of imbri- 
cated flattish scarious frequently coloured phyllaries arranged in 
several rows. Florets all tubular, female ones with filiform corollas ; 
none of them in the axils of paleae. Achenes sub-cylindrical or 
fusiform. Pappus of hairs arranged in a single row. 
Cottony annuals or perennials with alternate entire leaves. 
Anthodes solitary or in corymbs or clusters, with the phyllaries 
scarious, grey, brown, yellow, white, or rose-colour. Florets 
yellowish. 
The name of this genus of plants is said to come from the Greek word yratyivq 
(gnapheus), a fuller, certain species being soft and woolly as the nap of cloth, and 
according to some writers, used as a substitute for cotton or flax in filling couches and 
mattresses ; and hence called Cotton weed. 
Section I.— EU-GNAPHALTUM. 
Anthodes heterogamous. Florets of the centre perfect, those 
of the circumference female, disposed in several rows. Pappus 
of capillary hairs free to the base and falling off separately at 
maturity. 
SPECIES I— GNAPHAL I UM ULIGINOSUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCXL1. 
Reidi. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CiMXLVII(I). Figs. 2, 3. 
I'.ilbt, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 42. 
Annual. Stem ascending or decumbent, much branched. 
Leaves not amplcxicaul, oblanccolate-strapshaped or strapshapcd, 
cottony on both sides, rarely glabrous. Anthodes collected into 
cylindrical-ovoid dense terminal heads, overtopped by the leaves 
beneath them. Pericline ovate-ovoid ; phyllaries unequal, scarious, 
light-brown. Achenes smooth, glabrous or papillose. 
