Antennaria.] COMPOSITE. 209 



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 Arctic Europe, N. Asia, N. America ; species about 10. — 

 Etym. From the likeness of the male pappus to the antennae of a 

 butterfly. 



A* dioi'ca, Br. ; herbaceous, densely tufted, leaves spathulate, heads in 

 simple corymbs. Oafs-foot. 



Heaths and sandy pastures, from Cornwall and Devon in the west and 

 Suffolk on the east to Shetland ; ascends to 2,000 ft. in Scotland ; Ireland ; 

 fl. June- Aug. — Perennial. Barren shoots many. Leaves chiefly radical, 

 |-1^ in., apiculate, silky beneath. Flowering stems 2-8 in., slender, cottony, 

 with many linear bracts. Heads 2-8, crowded ; male subglobose, J 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. — Distrib. Of the genus. 



A . hyperbo'rea, Don, is a var. with leaves broader cottony above. — Skye. 



A. margarita'cea, Br. ; half shrubby, corymb compound. 

 Naturalized in S. "Wales and Scotland ; Channel Islands ;. fl. July- Aug. — 

 Perenuial, stoloniferous. Stem 2-3 ft., leafy, stout, and leaves beneath and 

 corymb densely clothed with white or buff cottony tomentum. Leaves 

 3-5 in., narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, |-amplexicaul, glabrous above. 

 Heads § in. diam., of male fl. globose; female more campanulate ; invol. 

 bracts oblong, brown below, white and radiating above. — Distrib. N. 

 America. 



lO. FILA'GO, L. 



Slender, annual, cottony herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. Heads 

 in axillary and terminal clusters ; invol. bracts imbricate, often superposed 

 in series, scarious, acuminate, woolly ; receptacle elongate, slender, with 

 scales under the outer flowers. Outer fl. in 1 or more series, female, 

 outermost usually concealed in the concave inner invol. bracts ; corolla 

 very slender ; style-arms slender. Disk-fl. numerous, 2 -sexual or male ; 

 corolla-limb dilated, 4-5-toothed ; anther-cells tailed ; style-arms short. 

 Fruit terete, papillose ; pappus-hairs of the central florets very slender, in 

 1 or more series, of the marginal often 0. — Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, 

 "W. Asia ; species 8. — Etym. filum, from the cottony hairs. 



1. P. german'ica, L. ; leaves linear-oblong acute waved, heads 20 or 

 more in terminal spherical clusters, invol. bracts in many opposite series 

 not spreading acuminate and mucronate. 



Dry pastures and banks, from Koss and Dumbarton southd. ; rare in Scotland ; 

 common in Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. July- Aug. — Stem 6-18 in., stiff, 

 erect or ascending, dichotomously branched, flower-heads in the forks; 

 branches ascending, leafy. Leaves §-1 in. Heads \ in. broad; invol. bracts 

 glistening, subulate-lanceolate, longer than the flowers, pale reddish-brown ; 



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