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2. F. apiiuliita (Apiculate C.'udweed). — A taller, more greenish 

 species, with blunt apiculate haves ; heads larger than F. ger- 

 iniim'cn, to — 20 in a clustci', jirominently 5- angled, in clusters 

 which often appear lateral from the development of only one pro- 

 liferous branch, and are overtopped by i or 2 blunt leaves ; bracts 

 with smooth reddish tips. — Sandy places ; rare. The whole plant 

 has a smell of Tansy. — Tl. July, August. .Vnnual. 



3. F. spalhuldia (Spathulate Cudweed). — A'nother closely allied 



leaves spathulate ; 

 uigled, in clusters 



species, whitish, shorter, branched lower down 

 heaels larger, 8 — 15 in a cluster, prominently 

 overtopped by 2 — 3 acute leaves ; 

 brads with smooth vellow tips. — 

 Dry fields ; not common. — Tl. July, 

 August. Annual. 



4. F. mi 111 Ilia (Least Cudweed). 

 — A smaller, erect, repeatedly 

 forked, greyish plant. 4 — 6 in. high ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, ad- 

 pressed, cottony ; heads 3 — 6 

 together m terminal and a.villary 

 clusters, brownish-yellow. — Dry 

 gravelly places : common. — Tl. 

 June — September. Annual. 



5.* F. gdlliea (Narrow-leaved 

 Cudweed). — A slender, repeatedly 

 forked plant, with linear acute and 

 afterwards revolute leaves longer 

 than the yellowish flourr-heaJs, 

 which are borne in axillary clusters 

 of 2 — 6 together. — Sandy fields in 

 Essex, Hertfordshire, and Bucking- 

 hamshire ; not indigenous. — Tl. 

 July — September. Annual. 



5. ANTEXX.iRiA (Everlasting). — AVoolly plants ^\ith flozi'er-heads 

 dicecious or nearly so ; florets all tubular ; pappus of one row of 

 hairs, those of the staminate florets club-shaped. (Name from 

 the aiitenncE of a butterfly which the pappos-hairs of the staminate 

 florets resemble.) 



r. A. dioica (Cats-foot, ]vIountain Everlasting, or Cudweed).— 

 The only British species, a pretty little plant, ,3 — 6 in. high, with 

 numerous prostrate shoots : leaves spathula|e, apiculate, green 

 above, cottony below ; heads 2 — 5, ni a corymb, rendered con- 

 spicuous by the white or rose-coloured involiicje, which is of the 

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