COMPOSITE. 75 



Anthodcs ] inch long, in a spike-like raceme or jianiclc, interrupted 

 towards tlie base, dense and blunt at the apex. Achcncs pale-olive, 

 very slender, tubcreulate. Upper side of the leaves deep-green, 

 under side hoary-white with silky })ubescencc. 



Upright Cudweed. 



French, Gnaplude des Bois. German, Wcdd Rnhrkraut. 



SPECIES IV.— GNAPHALIUM NORVEGICUM. Gunn. 



Plate DCCXLIV. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMIL. Fig. 2. ? 

 BUM, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Ex.sicc. No. 140. 



G. sylvaticum, fi Norvegicuni, IIooJc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. i-tT. 

 G. sylvaticum, <S^»i. Eng. Bot. No. 913. 



Perennial. Rootstock producing short leafy barren shoots or 

 solitary erect simple flowering-stems. Lowest leaves oblanceolate, 

 those in middle of stem largest, those in the inflorescence suddenly 

 much smaller and narrower ; all acute, cottony on both sides. 

 Anthodcs subsessile in clusters or solitary, collected into a short 

 terminal spike or spike-like panicle, leafy towards the base, not 

 occupying more than one-third of the stem. Pericline cylindrical- 

 campanulate ; phyllaries unequal, the inner ones scarious, with an 

 olive stripe and dark-brown scarious margins, shorter than the 

 pappus and expanded florets. Achenes fusiform - cylindrical, 

 hispid. Pappus white. 



On alpine rocks. Very rare. I have only seen it on Lochnagar, 

 Aberdeenshire ; but it has also been found at the head 6f Can- 

 lochan Glen, Forfarshire ; on Ben Chat, five miles north of Blair 

 Atliole, and mountain north of Loch Ericht, Perthshire ; and on 

 Bcu Wyvis, Ross-shire. 



Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Very like G. sylvaticum, but the leaves are much broader, more 

 evidently 3-nerved, more distant, nearly equal in breadth up to 

 the commencement of tlie spike, immediately below wliich they 

 are rather crowded, and then tho.=ie in the spike abruptly become 

 much shorter and narrower than those beneath ; the rootstock in 

 the specimens I have seen has no barren shoots ; the spike is 

 shorter and more compact ; the phyllaries much darker towards 

 the margins, shorter in proportion to the pappus ; the achenes 

 larger and more fusiform, darker brown ; the pappus nearly pure 

 white instead of reddish-white; the leaves hoary on both sides. 

 lUjJiIand Cttdiceed. 



Frcncb, Gnapladc dt Waldeaherg . German, Norweglsches Rnhrkraut, 



