Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

472 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA.
eredo, floribus fparfis. Lin.fyji. nat.p. 545. Sp,
pi 1200. {Ger. em. 639./. i. Pet. herb. t. 18./.
6. Moris, hiji.f 7. t.ii.f.i. Scopol. FL Carniol
n. 1046. t. ^6. Oed. Dan. t. 254)
Spiked upright Cudweed. AngUs.
We obferv'd it upon dry paftures in the highlands
frequently. It grows likewlfe in woods and
thickets. $ ? VIII.
Several ftalks generally arife from the fame root,
but fometimes only one, eredl, unbranched, ten
or twelve inches high, covered with a white cot-
ton down, befet the whole length with long, li-
near, acute leaves, greenifli and downy on the
upper fide, but white and hoary underneath,
growing alternately one above another, and
Ihorter by degrees towards the top of the ftalk.
The flowers grow in one common, long, thick
fpike, compounded of numerous oihzv f pic uU^
arifing from the aU of the leaves, and bearing
each from one to three, four, or more fiov/crs :
the calyx is nearly cylindrical, the icales ellipti-
cal, green at the bale, fufcous towards the apex,
pellucid and Ihining on the border : the florets
are yellowifli, extremely fine and flender, mofl: of
them female, but a few hermaphrodite ones in
the centre of the difc.
There is a variety of this plant which fometimes oc-
curs upon the higM'^md mountains, having wider
leaves, and a ihort cluilered fpike of black
flowers.
GNAPHALIUM