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30. Antennaria Qcertn. Everlasting, 



Dicecious. Pappus pilose, of the sterile heads tliickened or 

 subplumose upwards. Receptacle naked. Involmrc imbricated, 

 the inner ones coloured or scariose at the end. Anthers with 

 bristles at the base. —Name from the hairs of the pappus of 

 the sterile florets resembling the antenncE of some insects. 



1. A. dioica Gaartn. (Mountain 7?., or Cafs-foot) ; sterile 

 shoots procumbent, flowering-stems erect simple, corymbs 

 crowded, root-leaves spathulate woolly beneath, caullne ones 

 nearly equal linear-lanceolate appressed. — a. leaves greenish 

 and naked above when old. Gnaphalium L, : E. B. t. 267. — 

 /3. leaves woolly on both sides. A. hyperborea D. Don : 

 E. B. S. t. 2640. 



Mountain heaths, abundant. — j8. Isle of Skye. ^. 6, 7. 

 Flowering -stems 3— 



8 inches high. 



2. A. "^'margaritdceaH.Br.^Pea?-!?/ E.) ; sterile procumbent 

 shoots none, stems erect herbaceous tomentose branched above, 

 leaves linear-lanceolate acuminated cottony especially beneath, 

 heads in level topped corymbs, scales of the involucre (white) 

 obtuse. Gnaphalium i.; E. B. t. 2018. 



Moist meadows. Near Booking, Essex ; Wire Forest, Worcester- 

 shire ; Lichfield, Staffordshire; Yorkshire, in various places ; banks 

 of the Ruinney, Glamorganshire; and near Dolgeliy, Merionethshire. 

 Jersey and Guernsey, if. 8. — A North American species, much 



cultivated. 



31. Gnaphalium Zi/zn. Cudweed. 



Heads 



pistillate florets in the circumference. Pappus pilose. Recep- 

 tacle flat and quite naked. Involucre imbricated, the scales 

 scariose towards the extremity. Anthers with bristles at the 

 base. Style of the perfect florets with short truncate branches 

 ciliated at the apex. — Name : yva(pa\oi'^ soft down or wool^ with 

 which the leaves are covered. 



Fill form florets in many rows ; achenes terete, Eugnaphalium. 



1. G. hiteo-album L. (Jersey C.) ; stems herbaceous simple 

 branched from the base, leaves semiamplexicaul linear-oblong 

 waved woolly on both sides, lower ones obtuse, heads in dense 

 leafless corymbs. E. B. t. 1002. 



Sandy fields, very rare. Jersey. Between Hanxtown and Little 

 Shelford, Cambridgeshire ; and Larlingford, Norfolk. ©. 7, 8. 

 Stem decumbent at the base, then ascending. Heads o? flowers yel- 

 lowish and conspicuous, while those of the following species are 

 not so. 



2. G. sylvdticum L. (Highland C.) ; stem simple nearly 



