JULY. 327 
GNAPHALIUM ULIGINosuUM. Marsh Cudweed. Found 
commonly in sandy and wet places, and where water usually 
stands. Differing in size, stem much branched, the leaves 
long and narrow, and both very much covered with white 
down. Flowers small, in crowded clusters at the end of 
the branches, amongst the leaves. Scales of the involucre 
yellowish-brown, shining and smooth. 
GNAPHALIUM MINIMUM. Least Cudweed. Frequent in 
dry and gravelly places. A small species about six inches 
high, very slender, erect and branched. Leaves small, 
narrow, acute, and soft with down ; flowers scattered on the 
upper stems, small, and without stalks. 
GNAPHALIUM GERMANICUM. Common Cudweed. Sandy 
and gravelly places, and dry pastures, produce this curious 
plant; its stem is about eight inches high, erect, clothed 
with downy, narrow leaves, and terminated by a globular 
head of small flowers, from beneath which grow other 
branches terminated in the same way, which may again be 
divided. By the old botanists this plant was called Herba 
impia, from its appearing as if the offsprmg were unduti- 
fully exalting themselves above the parents. One or two 
other species flower next month. 
