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3. G. uligino'sum, L. ; annual, stems diffuse, heads terminal. 



Damp places, especially in light soil ; fl. July-Sept. Cottony above, rarely 

 glabrate. Stems 2-6 in., usually many, erect from the decumbent base. 

 Leaves narrow, gradually dilated upwards, acute or obtuse ; petiole not 

 amplexicaul. Heads in. long, sessile, clustered, subtended by long linear 

 leaves ; invol. bracts narrow, subacute, pale brown. Fruit very minute. 

 DISTKIB. Europe (Arctic), Siberia, N. America. Syme distinguishes a var. 

 pilula're, Wahl. (sp.), with papillose fruit, found by him at Toft in Cam- 

 bridgeshire. 

 ** Leaves chiefly radical. Female flowers in one series. Fruit compressed. 



4. G. supi'num, L. ; perennial, tufted, scapes with 1 or few heads. 

 Alpine and subalpine rocks and streams, from Stirling northwards, ascending 



to near 4,300 ft.; fl. July-Aug. Dwarf ; tufts 1-6 in. diam., covered with 

 cottony appressed wool ; roots fibrous, dark brown. Leaves -1 in., narrow, 

 linear-lanceolate, subacute. Scapes ^-3 in., slender, with few linear leaves. 

 Heads 1-3, g in. diam., sessile ; invol. bracts scarious, brown above, woolly, 

 outer obtuse, inner acute. Fruit pubescent ; pappus white. DlSTRlB. 

 Alpine and Arctic Europe and N. America. 



26. ANTENNA'RIA, Brown. 



Characters of Chiaphalium, but heads dioecious or nearly so. Flowers 



all tubular ; female filiform, 5-toothed ; style slender, funnel-shaped ; 



male tubular, limb dilated above ; anthers partly exserted, cells tailed ; 



style undivided. Fruit nearly terete; pappus-hairs 1-seriate, of female 



flowers filiform, of males thickened upwards and serrate. DISTRIB. 



Temp, and cold Europe, N. Asia, India, N. America. ETYM. From 



the likeness of the male pappus to the antennae of a butterfly. Species 



about 12. 



1. A. dioi'ca, Br. ; herbaceous, heads in a simple corymb. Cat's- 



foot. 



Mountain heaths and sandy pastures, ascending to near 2,000ft. in Scotland, 

 rarer in the south ; fl. June- Aug. Perennial. Stems densely tufted ; barren 

 shoots many. Leaves chiefly radical, -! in., spathulate, apiculate, silky 

 below. Scapes 2-8 in., slender, cottony, with many linear braets. Heads 

 2-8, crowded ; male subglobose, | in. diam., outer invol. bracts scarious 

 cottony, inner longer with a white or pink radiating obtuse ligule, stamens 

 exserted ; female twice as large, invol. scales more numerous, shorter than 

 the flowers. Fruit papillose ; pappus-hairs silky. DISTKIB. Europe (Arctic), 

 N. and W. Asia, E. and W. N. America. 



VAR. hyperlo'rea, Don (sp.) ; leaves broader slightly cottony above. Skye. 



A. MARGARITA'CEA, Br. ; half shrubby, heads in a compound corymb. 

 Naturalized in S. Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, and several places in Scotland ; 

 fl. July-Aug. Perennial, stoloniferous. Stem 2-3 ft., leafy, stout, and 

 leaves below and corymb densely clothed with white or buff cottony tomen- 

 tum. Leaves 3-5 in. , narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile and ^-amplexi- 

 caul, glabrous above. Heads % in. diam., of male fl. globose ; female 

 more campanulate ; invol. bracts oblong, brown below, white and radiating 

 above. DISTRIB. N. America. 



