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osely-branched herbaceous plant, i — 2 feet high, with lanceolate 

 ciliate leaves and numurous very small clingy yellow heads, with 

 small purplish-white niy-floreis, and a white pappus. — Waste 

 places ; a weed of local occurrence. ^Fl. August, September. 

 Annual. 



2. E. dcris (151ue Flea-bane). — A much branched, hairy plant, 

 I — 2 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, entire, obtuse ; branches alter- 

 nate, erect, bearing single heads which are corymbose and have a 

 pale yellow disk, a dull pale blue-purple ray, and a very long, 

 tawny pappus.- —Ihy places and walls; not common. — Fl. July, 

 August. Uiennial. 



3. E. alpi>!us (Alpine Flea-bane). — A hairy plant, 4 — 8 in. 

 high, with leaves mostly radical, lanceolate ; and generally solitar)', 

 largish heads with hairy involucre, and numerous, narrow, light 

 purple ray-florets. — Breadalbane and Clova mountains ; very rare. 

 — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



6. Ijixosvi;rs (Goldilocks). Differing but little from Aster but 

 entirely destitute o{ ray-jlorels ; disk yellow ; bracts nnbricate, her- 

 baceous ; receptacle naked, honeycombed, witli dentate margins to 

 the pits ; fruits compressed, not beaked, silky. (Name from the 

 Greek linon, tlax, and osyris, the toad-flax.) 



1. L. vulgaris (Flax-leaved Goldilocks). — A glabrous, erect, 

 unbranched, herbaceous plant, 12 — 18 iii. high, with lesi.{y stem ; 

 linear entire leaves and a few heads of yellovv flowers, with no ray, 

 in a terminal corymb. — Limestone cliffs ; very rare. — Fl. August, 

 September. Perennial. 



7. Fir AGO (Cudweed). — Slender, woolly plants, with small 

 scattered entn-e leaves ; heads minute, in axillary and terminal 

 clusters ; bracts few, membranous, long, pointed, imbricate ; recep- 

 tacle conical, with a few chaffy scales at its margin ; florets few, all 

 tubular, the outer ones without stamens ^ pappus of slender, silky 

 hairs. (Name from the Latin filuiii, a thread, from the ciown 

 co\'eriiig the whole plant.) 



1. 1<\ gerniciuica (t'ommon L'ilago or Cudweed). — A singular 

 little [ilaiit, .\ —\2 ill. high, greyish ; stem erect, cottony, terminat- 

 ing in a globular assemblage oi heads, from the base of which two 

 or more branches spring, winch are similarly prohlcrous ; leaves 

 linear, acute, wav)' ; heads 20 40 in each cluster, obscurely 

 c-angled, reddish-brown ; brads with smooth, yellowish lips. — Dry 

 gravelly places ; common, hrom its curious mode of branching, 

 this species was calleel l)V the old bofanists Herba impia (the 

 undutilul ]ilant), as if the young shoots were guilty of disrepect 

 in overtopping the parent. — \'\. Jul)', August. Annual. 



