76 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES V.— GNAPHALIUM SUPINUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCXLV. 
Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLII. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Genu. Exsicc. No. 1006. 
Perennial. Rootstock producing numerous short leafy csespi- 
tose barren shoots and erect simple flowering-stems. Lowest leaves 
oblanceolate-linear, those of the stem linear-acute, all cottony on 
both sides. Anthodes 1 to 7, in a short terminal head-like spike 
or in a few-flowered raceme, at first curved, ultimately erect. Peri- 
cline campanulate ; phyllaries nearly equal, scarious, with an olive 
stripe in the middle and brown scarious margins, nearly as long as 
the pappus and expanded florets. Achenes fusiform-cylindrical, 
compressed, smooth, finely-hairy. 
Var. a, genuiniim. 
Anthodes sessile or subsessile, in a short terminal spike or head. 
Var. 0, fuscum. Scop. 
Anthodes stalked, in a rather lax raceme. 
On rocks, and by the sides of streams on mountains. Not 
uncommon throughout the higher Highland mountains. Vars. a 
and 3 occur together, and pass insensibly into each other. 
Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Plant growing in small tufts. Stems \ to 8 inches high, very 
cottony towards the top. Anthodes \ inch long, broader than in 
the two preceding, with the outer scales longer in proportion ; the 
inner ones more acute, and of thinner texture ; the outer ones with 
the wool towards the base coming further up. Female florets in 
only one row. Achenes grooved on the inner face, clothed with 
short white hairs. 
\ arieties a and pass insensibly into each other. 
Dwarf Cudweed. 
French, Gnaplmle Petite. German, Niedrigea luilirkraut. 
Section III.— ANTENNAMA. 11. Br. 
Anthodes homogamous, dioecious. Florets of the sub-malo 
plants with the anthers longer than the tube; style usually undi- 
vided ; pappus of denticulate clavate hairs. Florets of the female 
plants without anthers; style 2-cleft ; pappus of capillary hairs 
united into a ring at the base and falling off united at maturity. 
