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COIIPOSIT^'E 



texture commonly termed everlasting.rr-Mountiim heaths and 

 sandy places ; frequent especially in the north. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



*2. A. vmigaritdcea (White Everlasting of gardens). — An erect, 

 half shrubby, corymbosely-branched, leafy, cottony plant, 2 — 3 

 feet high, -^vith runners ; linear-lanceofate acute leaves, 3 — 5 in. 

 long, smooth above ; and small heads of yellowish flowers, with 

 white involucres, in a compound corymb. It is naturalised in 

 South Wales, the Channel Islands, and elsewhere.- -Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



9. Gn'.\ph.(liu.m (Cud- 

 weed). — Woolly plants with 

 small heads of tubular florets 

 clustered in terminal or nxil- 

 lafy fascicles ; bracts ad- 

 pressed, coloured ; receplarle 

 flat, naked ; auler florels 

 without stamens ; anthers 

 tailed ; pappus of one row 

 of^ slender, silky hairs. 

 (Name from the Greek 

 giiaphdlion, referring to the 

 woolly down.) 



I. G. uUginosuni (Marsh 

 Cudweed). — A small plant 

 3-j^6 in. high, much branch- 

 ed, woolly, white ; leai'es 

 narrow, downy, oyer-to[)ping 

 the terminal clusters of 

 heads- bracts glnsiy, 

 ish-brown. — Wet, 

 places, especially 

 very common. — Fl. 



ANTENN-'iraA oioluA {^Mountain Ez'crlastl?ll:\ 



yelujw- 

 sandy 

 where 



lulv— 



water has stood during winter 

 September. Annual. 



2.G. liiteo-dlhiim (Jersey Cudweed).— A taller, less branched 

 species with heads in dense, leafless corymbs, jialc straw-coloured 

 brads, and red-tinged florets, is found chiefly in the Cliannel 

 Islands. —Fl. July — August. Annual. 



3. G. syhidticuni (Wood Cudweed).f-A white cottony plant 

 about a foot high, with an unbranched stem : long, narrow, acute 

 leaves ; and a leafy, distant spike of yellowish heads. — Woods and 

 gravelly heaths ; common. — k'l. July— Septenilier. Perennial. 



4. G. norvegdcum (Highland Cudweed). — Diflering in having 

 broader leaves, a close spike of Jicads, and brown bracts. - -Occuk 



