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GNAPHALIUM gallicum.
Narrow-leaved Cudweed.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-superflua.
G en. Char. Recept. naked. Down rough or feathery.
Cal. imbricated; with coloured membranous scales.
Florets of the radius awl-shaped. Some florets of
the disk occasionally abortive.
Spec. Char. Stem erect, branched. Leaves linear,
revolute, acute. Flowers awl-shaped, axillary,
crowded.
Syn. Gnaphalium gallicum. Huds. 361. Sm. FI.
Brit. 872. With. 715. Hull. ed. 2. 239. Dicks.
H. Sicc.fasc. 11. 10.
G. parvum ramosissimum, foliis angustissimis, po-
lyspermon. Raii Syn. 181. Pluk. Phyt. t. 298.
ĥ 2 .
Filago gallica. Linn. Sp. PI. 1312,
M u c h doubt has arisen concerning this Cudweed as a native
o f Britain, because it is not now to be found in the sandy
fields about Castle Heyeningham in Essex, where Dale formerly
observed it to be plentiful. Plukenet’s figure however
precludes ail uncertainty as to Dale’s plant, and Mr. W o o d ward
is mentioned in the Botanist’s G uide , 191, to have noticed
the same in Derbyshire. W e have only seen garden specimens.
It is annual, flowering }n J u ly and August, and likes
a poor d ry gravelly soil.
T h e root is small and tapering. Stems one or more, a span
h igh , leafy, simple below, repeatedly branched in a corymbose
form above. Leaves scattered, narrow, slightly revolute.
Flowers small, sessile, and mostly crowded, among some o f
the leaves; tumid at their b a se ; closed and tapering upwards.
Calyx-scales narrow, keeled, membranous at the tip. Florets
p f the disk about 3, tubular, brownish y e llow ; those o f the
radius & veral, very slender. T h e germens seem all to be usua
lly fertde. Seed-down rough. Receptacle small, convex,
granulated. T h e whole herb is cottony, with a pretty silvery
aspect.