PI. ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITiE, C. 225. Antcnnaria. 459 



y. mhra. Calathides reddish. 



Gnaplialinm montanum purpureum, Ger. em. 640, 5. 



2. Antennaria margaritacea. Pearly cats-foot. 



Stem branched above ; leaves linear, lanceolate, pointed, 

 alternate; corymhiis conglomerate. 



Elichrysum q. Gnapbalium Americanuin Gerardi (641,8), Rati Syn, 

 182,2. 



Argyrocoise seu Gnapbalium Ampricanum, Parle. Par. 374, 



Gnaphalium margaritaceum, Lin. S. P. 1198. 



American live-for-evsr. American cudweed. Pearly everlasting. 



Damp fields ; perennial ; August. Naturalized. 

 Root creeping; stem woolly; leaves slightly revolute, 

 greenish above, densely tomentose beneath. 



LI. 226. GNAPHALIUM. Dioscorides. Cudweed. 



Per'icline cylindrical ; scales linear, shining, membrana- 

 ceous, coloured, as long as the flower; calathides flosculous; 

 flowers of the centre hermaphrodite, few; of the circum- 

 ference many, threadshape ; clinanthus pitted, naked ; pap" 

 pus sessile, rough, hairlike, deciduous. 



1, Gnaphalium luteo-album. Pale-yellow cudweed^ 

 Stem herbaceous, upright, not branched; leaves slightly 



stem-clasping, swordshape, repand, both sides tomentose j 

 lower leaves blunt; upper pointed; corymhus conglome-. 

 rate. 



Elichrysum sylvestre latifolium capitulis conglobatis, Rciii Syn. 182,3, 

 Gnaphalium oblongo folio, Ger. em. 643, 13. 

 Gii,'ii)halium luteo-album, Lin. S. P. 1196, 

 Long-leaved cudweed. Jersey live-long. 



Sandy places and dry walls ; annual ; July and August. 

 Root small ; stem, diffuse at bottom ; leaves not in the 

 least cut; perid'me pale yellow. 



2. Gnaphalium supinum. Supine cudweed. 

 Stem herbaceous, not branched, procumbent or very 



short ; lower leaves pointed, tomentose ; calathides capitate. 



Gnaphalium supinum, Lin. Syst. Nat. ed, 12, 234, 

 Gnaphalium alpinum, Lightfoot Fl. Scot. 4T0. 

 Dwarf cudweed. 



Micaceous alps ; perennial ; July. 



Root creeping; stem 6 inches high; leaves slender; ca-; 

 lathides racemose, upright ; upper sessile ; lower pedicelled. 



