COMPOSITAE. 



VOL. III. 



7. Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunner. Nor- 

 wegian Cudweed. Fig. 4412. 



G. norvegicum Gunner, Fl. Norveg. 2: 105. 1772. 



Perennial ; stem simple, 6'-i8' high. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate to spatulate, elongated, acute, narrowed 

 at the base, woolly on both sides, or green and 

 glabrate above, $'-6' long, 2"-$" wide, the lower 

 and basal ones petioled ; heads about 3" high, 

 numerous in a more or less leafy spike, the lowest 

 often distant, solitary or glomerate in the upper 

 axils ; bracts of the involucre ovate-oblong, dark 

 brown, or brown-tipped, glabrous or slightly 

 woolly, obtuse ; pappus-bristles united at the base, 

 falling away in a ring; achenes hispidulous. 



Mt. Albert, Gaspe, Quebec, north to Greenland and 

 Arctic America. Also in Europe. July-Aug. 



8. Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. Wood 



Cudweed. Chafweed. Owl's Crown. 



Golden Motherwort. Fig. 4413. 



Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. Sp. PI. 856. 1753. 



Perennial; stem slender, simple, 6'-i8' high. 

 Leaves linear, acute, i'-2' long, \"-2.\" wide, 

 or the lowest linear-spatulate, woolly beneath, 

 glabrous or glabrate above; heads about 3" 

 high, numerous in a more or less leafy spike, 

 or the lowest solitary or glomerate in the 

 upper axils; bracts of the involucre linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, mostly glabrous, yellowish or 

 greenish with a brown spot at or just below 

 the apex ; pappus-bristles united at the base ; 

 achenes hispidulous. 



New Brunswick and Cape Breton Island to 

 Quebec and northern Maine and New Hampshire. 

 Widely distributed in Europe and northern Asia. 

 June-Aug. 



9. Gnaphalium purpureum L. Purplish 

 Cudweed. Fig. 4414. 



Gnaphalium purpureum L. Sp. PI. 854. 1753. 



Annual or biennial, simple and erect or branch- 

 ed from the base and the branches ascending, 2'-2 

 high. Leaves spatulate, or the uppermost linear, 

 mostly obtuse, mucronulate, woolly beneath, usu- 

 ally green and glabrous or nearly so above when 

 old, sessile, or the lowest narrowed into petioles, 

 I '-2' long, 2" -6" wide ; heads 2"-2$" high in a 

 terminal, sometimes leafy, often interrupted spike, 

 or the lowest ones distant and axillary; bracts of 

 the involucre yellowish brown or purplish, lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, acute or acutish, the outer woolly 

 at the base ; pappus-bristles united below ; achenes 

 roughish. 



In dry sandy soil, eastern Maine to Florida, Penn- 

 sylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas and Texas. 

 Bermuda ; Jamaica ; Mexico. Far western plants for- 

 merely referred to this species prove to be distinct. 

 May-Sept. 



