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

SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 473
iiliginofum^ GNAPHALIUM caule herbaceo ramofo diffufo,
floribus confertis terminalibus. Lin, fyjl. nat.
p. 545, Sp. pi I2CG. (Pet. herb. t. I'd.f. 7. Ger,
em. 6^g.f. 2. Moris, hift.f.y.t. 11. /. 14. or di-
ms fuperioris ad dexiram.)
Black-headed Cudweed. Anglis.
In damp foils, and where water has fcood in the
winter, frequent. O, VIII. IX.
The flalk is widely branched, the branches pro-
cumbent, white, and hoary : the leaves are li-
near, wideft towards the extremity, and covered
with a cotton down, efpecially on the under fide :
the flowers are very fmall, feflile, and grow in
clullers at the fummits of the branches, imbed-
ded in down amongil the leaves : the fcales of
the calyx are of a dark fhining fufcous color, in
the younger ones yellowifh : the central florets
are hermaphrodite, and ftreak'd with yellow
lines j the female ones are extremely fine and
llender.
CONYZA. Gen. pi. 950.
Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Calyx imbricatus,
fubrotundus. Cor. radii trifldi.
CONYZA foliis lanceolatis acutis, caule herbaceo
Jquarrofai. ^ ,. i-ur r r- rn
■^^ •' corvmbofo, calycibus Iquarrolis. Lm.Jyp. riat. />.
547- Sp^P^- '-05- (^^^- ^'''''" 792- ^^'' {^^''^-i- i^"«
/. I. Moris, hiji.f. 7. /. 19./. 2 3. J
Plowman's Spikenard. Anglis.
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