71 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stem 3 to 18 inches high, sometimes solitary in small specimens, 
but generally dividing at the base into several, which rarely branch 
again unless the main shoot be injured. Leaves slightly undulated 
at the margins. Anthodes half sunk in wool, not intermingled 
with leaves. Pericline ^ inch long, campanulate ; phyllaries thin, 
broadly scarious towards the sides and apex, shining, glabrous. 
Florets dull-red. Achenes brown, rough with small tubercles. 
Whole plant hoary, very densely clothed with cottony hairs. 
Jersey Cudweed. 
French, Gnaphale Jauaatre. German, Gelblichwasses Ruhrh'aut. 
Section II.— GAMOCH/ETA. Wedd. 
Anthodes heterogamous. Elorets of the centre perfect, those 
of the circumference female, disposed in several rows. Pappus 
of capillary hairs united into a ring at the base and falling off 
united at maturity. 
SPECIES III.— GNAPHALIUM S YL VATICUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCXLIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMIL. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 41. 
<>'. sylvaticum, var. n, rectum, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 247. 
G. rectum, Sm. Eug. Bot. No. ] 24. 
Perennial. Rootstock producing short leafy barren shoots and 
1 or more erect simple flowering-stems. Lowest leaves linear- 
oblanceolate, acute ; stem-leaves not ainjdexicaul, linear, all gla- 
brous above, silky-white beneath. Anthodes in clusters or solitary, 
subsessile, in a long leafy interrupted spike, or more rarely a spike- 
like panicle, usually occupying half the stem or more. Pericline 
cylindrical-campanulate ; phyllaries unequal, the inner ones sca- 
rious, with a green stripe in the middle, margined with dark-brown, 
as long as or a little longer than the florets and pappus. Achenes 
cylindrical, hispid. Pappus reddish-white. 
In fields, heaths, and open woods, and by roadsides. Common, 
and generally distributed in Scotland ; more rare in England, 
especially in the South. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Rootstock short, somewhat woody, slightly branched. Stems 
3 to is inches high, stiff, cottony. Leaves of the barren shoots 
and those at the base of the flowering-stems much attenuated 
towards the base, so as to be sub-petiolate ; stem-leaves very narrow. 
