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G N A P H A L I U M re&um.
Upright Cudweed.
S T N G E N E S I A Polygamia-fuperjlua.
G en. Char. Receptacle naked. Down feathery. Cal.
imbricated; its marginal fcales rounded, membra'
nous and coloured. Florets all equal and tubular*
Spec. Char. Stem ereft, terminating in a leafy compound
fpike. Leaves linear-lanceolate, almoft
naked on the upper fide.
Syn . Gnaphalium redtum. Baub. Hift. vol. 3. part m
p. 160.
Gn. fylvaticum. Hudf. FI. An. 360. With. Bot. Arr.
895. Relb. Cant. 312. Light/. FI. Scot. 472. Retz.
FI. Stand. 156.
Gn. anglicum. Raii Syn. 180. Ger. em. 639.
A N A T IV E o f groves, thickets and paftures in a light fandy
foil in many places, fent from Bedfordfhire by the Rev. Mr.
Abbot. It flowers in the latter part o f Summer, and is eafily
perceived. T h e root is perennial.
W e cannot but agree with Prof. Retzius, who, in his Flora
Scandinavia Prodromus, has diftinguifhed this from another fpe-
cies of Gnaphalium, with which Linnseus confounded it. T h e
real Gn .fylvaticum o f the laft named author, intended by him
in FI. Lapp, and Sp. Plant, is the G n. norvegicum o f R e tz iu s,
and FI. Dan. 254, as appears from original ancient fpecimens
in the Herb. Linn, as well as from the fpecific ch a ra cte r;
though it alfo appears from the ClifFortian Herbarium, now in the
pofleflion o f Sir J. Banks, and indeed from many o f his fyno-
nyms throughout, that Linnaeus confounded the two together,
as many other botanifts have done. A s thefe fpecies are un-
queftionably d id in tl, it becomes neceflary to give ours another
trivial name, and we have chofen that o f John Bauhin for its
aptnefs as well as its antiquity.
T h e real fylvaticum is a native o f alpine woods, and is what
Mr. Lightfoot fpeaks o f as a variety (p. 472 ). W e hope at
fome future period to give a figure o f i t ; in the mean time FI.
Dan. t. 254, is a good reprefentation, which Mr. Woodward
and D r. Stokes truly remarked [With. 895.) did not well fuit
our lowland plant. T h a t which it defcribes differs from our
G n. redlum in having broader leaves, more attenuated however
at the bafe, and lefs naked on the upper furface ; and a fhort
denfe Ample fpike o f flowers, with a blacker calyx.