LEONTOPODIUM 



DAISY OBDEB 



OZOTHAMNUS 507 



Tribe IV. Inuloide^e. — Leaves usually alternate, entire, rarely opposite or lobed. 



ANTENNARIA.— A genus of peren- 

 nial herbs, closely related to Gnaphalium, 

 and distinguished by the dry, coloured, 

 chaffy scales around each head of tubular 

 flowers, the stamens and pistils of which 

 are on different plants (dioecious). Leaves 

 clustered, entire. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 Antennarias are pretty plants, suitable for 

 the rock garden, borders, or edgings. 

 They thrive in light garden soil, and may 

 be increased by division of the root in 

 spring, or from seed sown at the same 

 season in cold frames, or in the open 

 border in April. 



A. dioica {Gnaphalium dioicum). — 

 Cat's Foot.— A. British plant, found on 

 heaths and sandy pastures, \yith pro- 

 cumbent shoots, and spoon-shaped or 

 lance-shaped woolly leaves. Flowers in 

 June, pink, in crowded corymbs 3-4 in. 

 high. The variety Jiyperborea has more 

 woolly leaves than the type ; and minima 

 is a smaU-growing form. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. inargaritacea {Pearl Everlasting). 

 A native originally of N. America, but 

 now found wild in parts of the British 

 Islands and the Continent. It is about 

 1 ft. high, with linear lance-shaped acute 

 leaves, downy white, especially beneath. 

 Flowers in July and August, white, J in. 

 across, borne in corymbose clusters. 



Culture do. as above. 



A. tomentosa {A. Candida). — A dwarf 

 silvery plant, considered to be a variety of 

 A. dioica. It grows scarcely 1 in. high, 

 and forms a dense carpet of silvery white 

 in a short time, and is a favourite for 

 edging, carpet-bedding, or for rockeries. 



Culture dc. as above. 



LEONTOPODIUM (Lion's Foot; 

 Edelweiss). — A genua with 4 or 5 species 

 of tufted woolly perennial herbs. Lower 

 leaves rather spoon-shaped, upper ones 

 alternate, entire. Flower-heads small, in 

 dense cymes at the tips of the branches. 



L. alpinum {Gnaphalium Leonto- 

 podmi/m). — Edelweiss. — A pretty Swiss 

 alpine plant 3-6 in. high, with white 

 woolly leaves. Lower ones lance-shaped, 

 narrowed into a stalk, upper ones sessile, 

 linear oblong. Flowers in June and 

 July, small, yellow, surroimded by an 

 irregular rosette of densely woolly bracts. 



Culture and Propagation. — The Edel- 

 weiss may be easily raised from seeds 

 sown in slight heat about March. The 

 plants grow well in exposed sunny spots 

 in the rock garden or border, in rather 

 sandy soil. Established plants may be 

 divided annually, but it is easier and more 

 satisfactory to raise them from seeds in 

 the same way as recommended for annuals 

 in general at p. 78. 



GNAPHALIUM (Cud Weed ; Ever- 

 lasting). — A genus containing about 100 

 species of annual, biennial, or perennial 

 herbs, few of which are of any garden 

 value. Leaves alternate, sessile, decurrent, 

 or rarely stalked. Flower-heads small, 

 sessile, often clustered, rarely in terminal 

 corymbs. Bracts of the involucre scarious, 

 often coloured at the tips. 



G. lanatum. — A plant about 1 ft. 

 high, chiefly valued for its beautiful 

 silvery foliage, and much used for edging 

 borders and beds. 



Culture and Propagation. — This is 

 practically the same as for Antennaria 

 above. It thrives best on dry poor soils, 

 and makes fine masses if pegged down. 

 BasUy increased by division in spring or 

 early autumn. 



OZOTHAMNUS.— A genus of shrubs 

 or rarely herbs, closely related to Heli- 

 chrysum. The flower-heads are smaU and 

 often few-flowered. Involucre oblong 

 ovoid or bell-shaped, the inner bracts 

 usually tipped with a coloured point. 



O. rosmarinifolius. — A beautiful fra- 

 grant shrub, native of Australia and Tas- 

 mania, where it attains a height of 6-10 

 ft. The branches are furnished with blunt 

 linear Eosemary-hke leaves, the edges of 

 which are turned up or down. The small 

 white flower-heads appear in July and 

 August and are borne in great profusion 

 in dense clusters. 



Culture and Propagation. — This plant 

 flourishes in ordinary good garden soil and 

 is practically hardy in the southern and 

 western parts of the kingdom. It should 

 be planted in warm sunny positions, and 

 may be increased by inserting cuttings of 

 the half -ripened flowerless shoots in sandy 

 soil about August under a handlight, keep- 

 ing them shaded from the sun and 

 sprinkled overhead occasionally. 



WAITZIA.— A small genus of erect 

 annuals (or perennials) vidth .alternate 



