AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. ee 
Ff, germaniua, Proliferous Cudweed, found in 
dry fields, is a very downy slender plant, stem 
ascending 4 to 12 inches, usually simple at first, 
afterwards producing from just below its summit 
two opposite erect branches, which are again 
proliferous in like manner. A botanist has 
described this plant as herdba zuzpia, the wicked 
plant, because the children rise above their 
parents! : mznzma is another of these cot- 
tony plants; it is the Least Cudweed, frequent 
in gardens and dry places, 2 to 6 inches high. 
Both these plants were formerly called Guapha- 
lium. Of the genus Guaphalium, there is a spe- 
cies found in woods and on heaths, from 3 to 24 
inches high, with darker flower-heads ; it is G. 
Sylvaticum. You may find, on walls and in dry 
places, Evigeron acris, Blue Fleabane, a plant 
about 6 to 12 inches high, with a small corymb 
of flowers yellowish in centre, the ray pale blue. 
On river-sides the reddish-purple heads of 
Eupatorium cannabinum, Hemp-Agrimony, 
another of the CompositT&, will soon be seen ; 
the plant is tall and handsome, having leaves 
with 3 to 5 deep segments, rather like the 
Horse-Chestnut, and downy. It mingles with 
the Comfrey and other waterside plants. 
