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G N A P H A L I U M dioicum.
Mountain Cudweed,, or Cat's-foot.
S TNGENES sA Polygamia-fuperjtua,
G en. C h a r . Receptacle naked. D ew » feathery. Cal.
imbricated ; its marginal fcales rounded, membra-
nous and coloured. Florets all equal and tubular,
EC< C h a r . Shoots procumbent. Stem perfectly
fimple, bearing a fimple çorymbus. Flowers
dioecious.
S yn. Gnaphalium dioicum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1199.
Hudf. FI. An. 360. With. Bot. Arr. 894. Relb.
Cant. 31 j.
G . montanum album. Rail Syn. 181, barren
plant.
G. longiore folio & flore, Rail Syn, 182. fertile
plant.
, O U N D on dry mountainous heaths, and in barren pafi.
Mrewnifng T ’ Sc°;1r duand WaIeS< We received S S Mr. Wdham Travis o f Scarborough, in June laft.
I he roots are fomewhat woody, creeping, perennial, and
flirow out long fimple fibres which run deep into the ground.
Runners feveral, leafy, procumbent, fpreading in every di-
ection. Leaves pointed, entire, bright green and fmooth
above, very white and cottony beneath; the radical ones, as
well as thofe on the procumbent lhoots, are fpatulate, and the
atter moftly oppofite. From the crown o f the root arifes one
fimple upright flowenng-ftem, 3 or 4 inches high, round and
cottony (like the runners), clothed with alternate lanceolate
leaves, and terminated by a fimple corymbus o f 4 or c flowers,
occafionally white or reddilh; the latter particularly are very
pretty, and both retain their colour when dry, being o f the
tribe o f Everlajltngs. T h e white are mod generally (not al-
ays) male m e ffed , having only a barren ftyle, and very ob-
lcure rudiments o f a feed, but their ftamina are perfed. 7 T he
others have only a piftillum, but even in thefe the feed is fel-
dom perfeded, as Mr. Woodward (in Bot. Arr.) iuftly observes,
the plants increafing much by root. T h e fcales o f
the calyx vary m length, but we do not find that either th«
long or round form is appropriated cxclufively to either fex.