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2. F. apiculdta (Apiculate Cudweed). — A taller, more greenish 

 species, with blunt apiculate leaves ; heads larger than F. ger- 

 mdnica, 10 — 20 in a cluster, prominently 5- angled, in clusters 

 which often appear lateral from the development of only one pro- 

 liferous branch, and are overtopped by i or 2 blunt leaves ; bracts 

 with smooth reddish tips. — Sandy places ; rare. The whole plant 

 has a smell of Tansy. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



3. F. spatJnildta (Spathulate Cudweed). — Another closely allied 

 species, whitish, shorter, branched lower down ; leaves spathulate ; 

 heads larger, 8 — 15 in a cluster, prominently 5-angled, in clusters 

 overtopped by 2 — 3 acute leaves; 



bracts with smooth yellow tips. — 

 Dry fields ; not common. — Fl. July, 

 August. Annual. 



4. F. minima (Least Cudweed). 

 — A smaller, erect, repeatedly 

 forked, greyish plant, 4 — 6 in. high ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, ad- 

 pressed, cottony ; heads 3 — 6 

 together in terminal and axillary 

 clusters, brownish-yellow. — Dry 

 gravelly places ; common. — Fl. 

 June — September. Annual. 



5.^ F. gdllica (Narrow-leaved 

 Cudweed). — K slender, repeatedly 

 forked plant, with linear acute and 

 afterwards revolute leaves longer 

 than the yellowish flower-heads, 

 which are borne in axillary clusters 

 of 2 — 6 together. — Sandy fields in 

 Essex, Hertfordshire, and Bucking- 

 hamshire ; not indigenous. — Fl. 

 July — September. Annual. 



"ILAGO GERMAXiCA Coiiivton Filago). 



8. Antennaria (Everlasting). — Woolly plants with, flower-heads 

 dioecious or nearly so ; florets all tubular ; pappus of one row of 

 hairs, those of the staminate florets club-shaped. (Name from 

 the antennxE of a butterfly which the pappus-hairs of the staminate 

 florets resemble.) 



I. A. dioica (Cat's-foot, Mountain Everlasting, or Cudweed). — • 

 The only British species, a pretty little plant, 3 — 6 in. high, with 

 numerous prostrate shoots ; leaves spathulate, apiculate, green 

 above, cottony below ; heads 2 — 5, in a corymb, rendered con- 

 spicuous by the white or rose-coloured involucre, which is of the 

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