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LEAST CUDWEED. Gnaphalium minimum. 



Plate 12, jig. 19. 

 Flowers yellow, in bunches longer than the leaves. 



Leavesovate, sharp-pointed, lying close to the stem. Flowers 

 four or five together, very light yellow, in heads both at the 

 the top, the sides, and the divisions of the branches. Grows 

 from four to six inches high. 



COMMON CUDWEED. Gnaphalium Germanicum* 



Plate 12, fig. 20. 

 Flowers yellow, in round bunches. 



Stem six or eight inches high, covered with lance-shaped, 

 downy leaves, and ending in a round head of numerous, yel- 

 lowish-white flowers out of this grow two wide -spreading 

 branches, with a similar head of flowers at the top, these again 

 producing other branches, and so on. 



O. S. Mountain Cudweed, Pearly Everlasting, one of the most common 

 garden plants, but rare in a wild state ; Wood Cudweed, Dwarf Cudweed, 

 and Narrow-leaved Cudweed. One species often grown in gardens, 

 (Gnaphalium arenarium) producing very brilliant yellow flowers, called 

 by the French " Immortelles" is sometimes stained by them of various 

 colors, and either thus, or in a natural state, made into garlands and 

 wreaths, to decorate the tombs of their departed friends : thus making the 

 lovely flower an emblem equally of the immortality of the beloved 

 deceased, and of their own never-ending regret. In the burial ground of 

 " Le Pere la Chaise," thousand of these mementoes of severed ties, but 

 continued affection, may be viewed around. These flowers have also been 

 sold in London in great quantities lately for winter ornaments. 



BUTTER-BUR. PETASITES. 

 COMMON BUTTER-BUR. Petasites vulgaris. 



Plate 13, Jiff. 1. 



On river-banks and in wet meadows, where it spreads about 

 widely on account of its very long, under-ground, stem-like 

 roots. In March whole acres may sometimes be seen covered 

 with the thick, upright, club-shaped spikes of flesh-colored 

 flowers, and at a later season with the very large, heart-shaped, 

 stalked leaves, which are of a light green color at top, and 

 downy beneath. The flowers are very seldom found with 

 pointals, and thus seldom produce seed. The very early 

 blossoming of the Butter-bur, when scarcely another plant is 

 to be seen, assembles on its flowers large numbers of the 



