SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Gnaphalium. 929 
Dicks. H. S. — FI. Dan. 859— (E. Dot. 1194. E.)— II. Ox. vii. 11. 14,/. 4 
— Dod. 66. 3—Lob. Ic. i. 481. 1 —Ger. Em. 639. 2— Dark. 686. 4— Pet. 
18. 7—Ger. 515. 
Stem three to nine inches high or more, upright, with a dense white cotton, 
much branched; branches spreading, more cottony and thicker towards 
the end, the lower often trailing, clothed with numerous leaves particu¬ 
larly towards the end, and these thickest and most cottony. Leaves 
elliptical, tapering into a long leaf-stalk, slightly cottony and greenish 
above, more cottony and whitish underneath. Flowers nearly sessile. 
Calyx , scales membranous spear-shaped, smooth, brown, shining, when in 
seed blackish, almost hid in the cotton. Down sessile, with simple rays, 
as long as the calyx. Woodw. Whole plant, particularly at the base of 
the calyxes and fruit-stalks, covered with a cottony substance. ( Florets 
yellowish, all fertile. E.) 
(Marsh Cudweed. E.) Black-headed Cudweed. (Welsh: Edafed- 
dog benddn. E.) In watery places, especially where stagnant water has 
remained during the winter. A. Aug. 
G. gaj/licum. (Stem branched, upright: flowers awl-sliaped, tufted, 
axillary: leaves thread-shaped, revolute, sharp-pointed. E.) 
Dicks. H. S.—(E. Bot. 2369. E.)— Pluk. 298. 2— Pet. 18. 12. 
Whole plant cottony, but the cotton shorter than that of G. germaniciim or 
montanum. Stem much branched. Leaves awl-shaped, half embracing 
the stem, about an inch long. Woodw. ( Receptacle convex, tubercled. 
Calyx , scales green, downy, with a thin white border. Florets of the disk 
about three; of the circumference more numerous, all tubular and fer¬ 
tile. Sm. E.) 
Narrow-leaved or Grass Cudweed. Filago Gallica. Linn. Gravelly 
corn-fields. In sandy ground about Castle Haveningham, Essex, (not 
now to be found there. E.) Heaths, Derbyshire. Mr. Woodward. 
(Dry banks near Forfar; also near Newburgh, Fifeshire. Mr. D.Don. 
Hook. Scot. E.) A. July—Aug. E.) 
G. (min'imum. E.) Stem upright, branched: (leaves spear-shaped, 
sharp-pointed, flat: E.) flowers conical, in axillary and terminal 
tufts. 
(E. Bot. 1157. E .)—Pet. 18. 11— H. Ox. vii, 11. 3. a.—Ger. 517. 8— Lob. 
Ic. i. 481. 2— Ger. Em. 641. 9— J. B. iii. a. 159— H. Ox. vii. 11. 3. b. 
(Stems very slender, erect, two to eight inches high, woolly; branched, 
chiefly from the first cluster of flowers, sometimes quite simple. Leaves 
erect, almost appressed, very small. Flowers small, three to six toge¬ 
ther in clusters, sessile, and sometimes solitary. Calyx downy, scales 
subulate. Grev. Florets yellowish. Down rough. Receptacle tuber¬ 
cled. E.) 
Least Cudweed. (Welsh: Edafeddog leiqf; Digoll Iwyd. G. minimum. 
Bay. Bauh. Sm. Willd. Relh. Hook. Grev. G. montanum. With. 
Huds. Hull, and supposed to be Filago montana of Linnaeus; but Smith 
observes that the real F. montana of Linnaeus has leaves and flowers 
nearly double the size of our plant; that it is far more woolly, especially 
the scales of the calyx; that all the blossoms are crowded together, 
never solitary, and that it is not found in Britain. E.) Sandy and 
gravelly ground. A. July—Aug. 
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