Gnaphalium.'] SYNGENESIA — SUPERFLUA. 301 



Waste places and about villages, in dry soils. Fl. Aug. 1/. — 1 — .1^ 

 foot high, erect. Panicles of Jiowers erect, leafj'. Floral leaves un- 

 divided. Flowers dingy yellow, rather large, hemisphasrical ; jiorets 

 of the ray very short. — Aromatic and bitter, much used in medicine. 



4. A. vulgaris, L. (3Itfguvrt) ; leaves pinnatifid their seg- 

 ments white and downy beneath, flowers somewhat racemed 

 ovate, receptacle naked. E. Bot. t. 978. 



Hedges and waste places, common. Fl. Aug. 1^, — Stems 3 — 4 feet 

 high, furrowed. 



5. A.* ccerulescens, L. (bluish or Lavander-leavcd Mugioort) ; 

 " leaves hoary most of them lanceolate undivided tapering at 

 the base, lower ones variously divided, flowers erect cylindrical, 

 receptacle naked." E. Bot. t. 2426. 



Sea-coast near Boston, Lincolnshire, and in the Isle of Wight : but 

 it cannot be found there now. FL Aug. Sept. If . 



28. Gnaphalicm. Linn. Cudweed. 

 * Flowers dicecioKs. (Antennaria, Gcert.^ 



1. G. dioicum, L. (mountain Cudweed) ; shoots procumbent, 

 stems simple, corymbs crowded, root-leaves spathulate woolly 

 chiefly beneath, flowers dioecious, inner scales of the involucre 

 elongated obtuse coloured. E. Bot. t. 267. — /3. hyperhoreum, 

 leaves woolly on both sides. — Antennaria hjperb., D, Don in 

 E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2640. 



Mountain-heaths, abundant. — (I. Isle of Skye. Fl. June, July. 1/ . 

 — Flowering-stems 3 — 4 inches high. Leaves greenish and naked 

 above when old, beneath white. Inner scales of the involucre often 

 rose-coloured, especially in the sterile flower. 



2. G. * margaritdceum, L. (American Cudweed, Pearly Ever- 

 lasting); herbaceous, stem branched above, leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late acute alternate cottony especially beneath, flowers corym- 

 bose level-topped. E. Bot. t. 2018. — Antennaria, GcBrt. 



Moist meadows, near Bocking, Essex. Banks of the Rymny, South 

 Wales ; and near Dalgelly, Merionethshire. Wire Forest, Worcester- 

 shire ; and near Lichfield. Jersey and Guernsey. Babington and 

 Christy. Fl. Aug. % . 



** Flowers perfect. 



3. G. luteo-dlbum, L. (Jersey Cudweed) ; herbaceous, leaves 

 seniiamplexicaul lineai'-oblong waved woolly on both sides, 

 lower ones obtuse, flowers densely tufted. E. Bot. t. 1002. 



Jersey. Between Hanxtown and Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. 

 Fields a't Larlingford, Norfolk. Fl. July, Aug. ©. — Corollas yellow 

 and distinct ; while those of the following sp. are inconspicuous. 



4. G. sylvaticu7n, L. (Highland Cudweed); stem simple nearly 

 erect downy, flowers axillary forming an interrupted leafy 

 spike, leaves linear-lanceolate downy. — a. leaves woolly on both 

 sides. G. sylvaticum, E. Bot. t. 913. — /3. leaves nearly glabrous 



