SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Gnaphauum. 925 
Blueish Mugwort. Sea shores. Near Boston, Lincolnshire; (Mr. To- 
held, Hudson; but not found there by any one else, and there seems 
equal reason to doubt whether the stations named by Gerard, viz. about 
Rye and Winchelsea Castle, and near Portsmouth, are now productive 
of the plant. E.) P* Aug 1 . 
GNAPHA'LIUM.* Receptacle naked: Down hair-like or 
feathery: Calyx tiled, membranous: Scales coloured at 
the edge. 
(1) Herbaceous ,* yellow-flowered. 
G. lu'teo-al'bum. Leaves sword-shaped, half-embracing the stem, 
waved at the edge, blunt, downy on both sides: flowers 
crowded. 
Dicks. H. S. — (j E. Bot. 1002. E.)— Kniph. 1— Pluk. 31. 6— Barr. 367— 
J. B. iii. a. 160. 2— Pet. 18. 5—Ger. 522. 3 —Clus. i. 329. 1—Ger. Em. 
643. 13 — Park. 686. 6 — H. Ox. vii. 11, row 2 ,f. 3 — Lob. Ic. i. 485. 2 — 
Park. 688. 9. 
( Stems six to twelve inches high, spreading at the base, then upright, 
undivided, leafy, cylindrical, bearing broad-topped spikes, many-flow¬ 
ered. Flowers terminal, crowded together, thickly woolly at the base. 
FI. Brit. E.) Plant covered with white cottony down. Calyx yel¬ 
lowish white, soft: scales egg-spear-shaped. Florets of the circumfe¬ 
rence numerous, often tinged with red. 
Jersey Cudweed. Everlasting. Dry banks and walls in the island of 
Jersey, very common. Ray. Sea coast of Wales. Gerard. West sea 
coasts. Parkinson. A mile above the first of Bognor rocks. Blackstone. 
Mr. Relhan has lately found this uncommon plant in the road between 
Hanxtown and Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, certainly wild, and also 
in a gravel pit in the same neighbourhood. E.) A. July—Aug. 
(2) Herbaceous ; white-flowered. 
G. margarita^ceum. Leaves strap-spear-shaped, tapering, alternate, 
(cottony on both sides, densely so beneath: E.) stem branched 
towards the top: flowers in a corymb. 
(E. Bot. 2018. E.) — Munt. 614. 170— Clus. i. 327. 3— Ger. Em. 641. 8— 
Pet. 18. 3 — Kniph. 12— J. B. iii. a. 162. 2— Park. Par. 373. 3. 
Florets of the circumference few. Stem extremely cottony, white, two feet 
high. Leaves numerous, strap-spear-shaped, long, sessile, growing 
without order, very entire, dark green and naked above, underneath 
greenish white, with a thick cotton. Flowering branches with numerous 
crowded heads at the end, on short branched cottony fruit-stalks, with a 
middle one sessile. Calyx bluntly egg-shaped, white, not cottony. 
Down simple, sessile, as long as the calyx. Woodw. ( Receptacle tuber- 
culated. Sm. E.) 
American Cudweed. Pearly Everlasting. Meadows, pastures, and 
banks of rivers. In a meadow near Booking, Essex, and on the banks of 
* (From yvcupsvi, 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 denominated Cotton-weed. E.) 
