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the manner of the garden-daify, in tufts, with procumbent ftalks 

 which take root at the joints, and fend forth new plants. The 

 leaves are oblong, indented at the edges, with a nerve through 

 the middle, and pointed; of a fmooth deep green on the upper 

 part, and hoary -underneath. The flower-flalks are three or four 

 inches high, round, and hoary, with Ihort, narrow, pointed 

 leaves. The flowers are at the top, in a kind of umbel, each on 

 a feparate pedicle, the largeft in the center, of a bright white ; 

 the difk fometimes adorned with a beautiful blufh of red. 



79. Round, purple-foivered Mountain-Ctidiveed, or Cat*s-foot (b). At 

 Temple-Green, with the former, by the road-fide. The flowers are 

 of a bright purplifli-red, neat and compact. They retain their 

 beauty under culture. 



80. The long white-flowered Mountain Cudweed, or Cat's-foot, is plen- 

 tiful with the two former. The flalks are taller, and not fo firm, 

 The flowers are lefs elegant. They are long, irregular, and of a 

 dull white ; though they are all of the fame family, and diftin- 

 guifhed only by their fex ; the two firft bearing male, and this 

 female flowers (cj. They are called Everlafting flowers by our 

 fhepherds and common people on thewaftes, from their holding 

 their colour after they are gathered. The flowers of the two firft 



(b) Elichryfum montanum, flore rotundiore fub-purpureo. Tourn. Inft. p. 453. 



(c) Pilofella minor. Dod. Pempt. p. 68. Icon exterior. Gnaphalium montanum longiore 

 & folio & flore. C. B. Pin. p. 263. Elichryfum montanum longlore & folio & flore albo. 

 Tourn. Inft. p. 453. Martyn. Tourn. i. p. 237. Valll. Aft. 1719. p. 387. Gnaphalium 

 montanum album. Ger. p. 516 rmac. p. 640. Raj. Hift i. p. 283. Syn. iii. p 83. Gna- 

 phalium montanum five PES CATI. Park. Theatr. p. 6gr. PES CATI, Oflic. Dal. Pharrn. 

 p. 90. Gnaphalium caule fimphciflimo, corymbo terminatrice, Sarmentis procumbentibus. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 400. Flo. Suec. n, 672. Reyen. lugdb. p. 147. Gnaphalium fexubus 

 tola planta dift ncla. Hall. Helv. p. 698. 



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