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osely-branched herbaceous plant, i — 2 feet high, with lanceolate 

 ciliate leaves and numerous very small dingy yellow heads, with 

 small purplish-white ray-florets, and a white pappus. — Waste 

 places ; a weed of local occurrence. — Fl. August, September. 

 Annual. 



2. E. dcris (Blue Flea-bane). — A much branched, hairy plant, 

 I — 2 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, entire, obtuse ; branches alter- 

 nate, erect, bearing single heads which are corymbose and have a 

 pale yellow disk, a dull pale blue-purple ray, and a very long, 

 tawny pappus. — Dry places and walls ; not common. — Fl, July, 

 August. Biennial. 



3. E. alpinus (Alpine Flea-bane). — A hairy plant, 4 — 8 in. 

 high, with leaves mostly radical, lanceolate ; and generally solitary, 

 largish heads with hairy involucre, and numerous, narrow, light 

 purple ray-florets. — Breadalbane and Clova mountains : very rare. 

 — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



6. LiNOSYRis (Goldilocks). — Differing but little from Aster but 

 entirely destitute of ray-florets ; disk yellow ; bracts imbricate, her- 

 baceous ; receptacle naked, honeycombed, with dentate margins to 

 the pits ; fruits compressed, not beaked, silky. (Name from the 

 Greek linon,, flax, and osyris, the toad-flax.) 



I. L. vulgaris (Flax-leaved Goldjlocks). — A glabrous, erect, 

 unbranched, herbaceous plant, 12 — 18 in. high, with leafy 5/em; 

 linear entire leaves and a few heads of yellow flowers, with no ray, 

 in a terminal corymb. — Limestone cliffs ; very rare. — FL August, 

 September. Perennial. 



7. FiLAGO (Cudweed). — Slender, woolly plants, with small 

 scattered entire leaves ; heads minute, in axillary and terminal 

 clusters ; bracts few, membranous, long, pointed, imbricate ; recep- 

 tacle conical, with a few chaffy scales at its margin ; florets few, all 

 tubular, the outer ones without stamens ; pappus of slender^ silky 

 hairs. (Name from the Latin fllum, a thread, from the down 

 covering the whole plant.) 



I. F. germdnica (Common Filago or Cudweed). — A singular 

 little plant, 4 — 12 in. high, greyish; stem erect, cottony, terminat- 

 ing in a globular assemblage of heads, from the base of which two 

 or more branches spring, which are similarly proliferous ; leaves 

 linear, acute, wavy ; heads 20 — 40 in each cluster, obscurely 

 5-angled, reddish-brown ; bracts with smooth, yellowish tips. — Dry 

 gravelly places ; common. From its curious mode of branching, 

 this species was called by the old botanists Herba impia (the 

 undutifui plant), as if the young shoots were guilty of disrepect 

 in overtopping the parent. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



