COMPOSITE. 73 



Var. a, genuinum. 

 Achencs glabrous. 



Var. 3, pilulare. Koch. 



G. pilulare, Wald. Fl. Lapp. p. 205. 



G. uliginosum, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 188. 



Aclienes with hair-like papillae. 



In damp fields, hy roadsides, and in places inundated in winter. 

 Very common, and generally distributed. Var. 3 I have seen only 

 from Toft, Cambridgeshire ; but it may be common, as it is only 

 distinguishable by the aclienes. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem 2 to 9 inches long, much branched from the base ; the 

 branches diffuse, flexuous, spreading, cottony. Ileads of anthodcs 

 sessile, surrounded and intermingled with leaves. Pericline ^ inch 

 long ; phyllaries shining, glabrous except at the base, where tliey 

 are woolly. Florets yellowish-brown. Aclienes olive. Plant hoary, 

 densely clothed with cottony hairs. 



Marsh Cudweed. 



French, Gnaphale des Marais. German, Sum,])/ JtuhrkratU. 



SrECIES II.— GNAPHALIUM LUTEO-ALBUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXLII. 



Ii'elch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLVII(I). Fig. 1. 

 JiUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 43. 



Annual. Main stem erect, lateral ones decumbent at the base ; 

 all usually unbranched up to the corymb. Lowest leaves oblan- 

 ceolate, obtuse ; stem-leaves amplexicaul, strapshaped, acute, all 

 cottony on both sides. Anthodcs in leafless clusters, arranged 

 in a terminal corymb, exceeding the leaves at their base. Peri- 

 cline ovoid ; phyllaries all equal, scarious, straw-colour. Achcnes 

 papillose, not hairy. 



In sandy fields and by roadsides. Formerly found in Cam- 

 bridgeshire ; said also to have occurred at Eriswell, Suffolk ; 

 Larlingford, Norfolk ; and near Bognor, Sussex : also at Belfast. 

 Probably not wild in any of these stations, but truly so in Jersey 

 and Guernsey. 



[England, Ireland,] Channel Islands. Annual. Autumn. 



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