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3. Jersey Cudiveed. Gnaphalmm luteo-album, Liim. 



(Eug. Bot. t. 1002.) 



An annual or biennal, scarcely a foot liigh ; the stems erect or ascending, 

 and all covered witli soft, white cotton. Leaves narrow. Flower-heads 

 2 or 3 lines in diameter, irregularly clustered in a dense corymb. Involu- 

 cral scales scarious at the top, of a pale-brown, yellow, or dirty-white colour, 

 but not spreading. Florets very numerous, mostly female and fihforiu, with 

 a few tubular male or complete ones in the centre. 



In sandy fields, pastures, and waste places, dispersed nearly all over the 

 temperate and warmer regions of the globe, extending in Europe to the 

 Baltic, but not beyond. In the British Isles, hitherto confined to Jersey. 

 Fl. summer and autumn. 



4. ViTood CudT7eed. Gnaphalium sylvaticum, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 913. G. rectum, Eng. Bot. t. 124.) 

 Stock perennial, tufted or shortly creeping, with long-stalked, lanceolate 

 leaves. Flowering stems nearly simple, erect, fi'om 2 to 6 or 8 inches high, 

 with linear leaves, usually cottony on the under side only, but sometimes on 

 both sides. Flower-heads small, cylindrical or ovoid, either solitary or in 

 Uttle clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, forming a long, leafy spike. 

 Involucres scarcely cottony, with brown, shining bracts ; the outer filiform 

 florets more uumei'ous than tlie inner tubular ones. Achenes slender, nearly 

 cyUndrical. 



In open woods, heaths, and pastures, in northern and central Europe and 

 Eussian Asia, and all round the Arctic Circle ; becoming a momitain plant 

 in the south, and scarcely reaching the Mediterranean. Extends over the 

 whole of Britain, but rare in south-western England. Fl. summer and au- 

 tumn. A high alpine or Ai'ctio variety, with the leaves cottony on both 

 sides, and the flower-heads darker coloured, in a short terminal spike, has 

 been distinguished under the name of G. norvegicum or fuscatum, and has 

 been found on some of the Scotch mountains. 



5. Dvtrarf Cudweed. Gnaphalium supinum, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1193, unusually luxuriant.') 

 A small, tufted perennisJ, with narrow leaves, sometimes resembling dwarf 

 specimens of the ivood C, but the stem seldom 2 inches high, bearing only 

 very few flower-heads in a terminal cluster, or only a single one ; and some- 

 times the flower-heads are almost sessile in the centre of the radical leaves. 

 Involucres brown, like those of the wood C, but the filiform florets are much 

 fewer, and the achenes broader and evidently flattened. 



An Arctic and high alpine plant, extending over the principal mountain- 

 ranges of Europe and western Asia to the Arctic Circle. Not uncommon 

 in the Scotch Highlands. Fl. summer. 



6. Meirsh Cud'weed. Gnaphalium uligincsum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. 1. 1194. Cudweed.) 

 A much branched, cottony annual, seldom above 6 inches high ; the 

 leaves linear or narrow-oblong, the upper ones waved on the edges. Flower- 

 heads small and clustered, many together, within a tuft of rather long 

 leaves at the extremity of the branches. Involucral bracts brown and 

 scarious. Florets about the length of the involucre, the 3 or 4 outer rows 



