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2. G. sylvaticum (Wood Cudweed). — A cottony plant, with a 

 simple stem, 6-12 inches high ; narrow leaves ; and bearing its 

 heads of yellow florets in a leafy spike. Woods and gravelly pas- 

 tures ; common. — Fl. July to September. Perennial. 



3. G. supinum (Dwarf Cudweed). — 2-3 inches high, with tufted 

 leaves, and flowering stems almost bare of leaves. Confined to the 

 summits of Highland mountains. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



4. G. Luteo album (Jersey Cudweed). — About 6 or 8 inches high, 

 cottony ; leaves narrow ; flower-heads in dense corymbs, with the 

 involucral bracts yellowish, and reddish florets. Channel Isles and 

 some of the eastern counties of England. — Fl. July, August. 

 Annual. 



Gnaphalium leontopodium is the famous " Edelweiss 

 Swiss Alps. 



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30. FiLAGO 

 I. F. Germanica (Common FUago). — Stem 

 cottony, erect, terminating in a globular assem- 

 blage of heads, from the base of which rise two 

 or more flower-stalks, which are proliferous in 

 like manner. A singular little plant, 6-8 inches 

 high, well distinguished by the above character. 

 From this curious mode of growth the plant was 

 called by the old botanists Herha impia, (the 

 undutiful herb), as if the young shoots were 

 guilty of disrespect by overtopping the parent. 

 Dry gravelly places ; common. — Fl. June, July. 

 Annual. 



FiLAGo Germanica 2. F. minima (Least Filago).— Stem erect, re- 

 (Common Filago) peatedly forked ; leaves very narrow, cottony, 

 pressed to the stem ; heads conical, in lateral 

 and terminal clusters, shorter than the leaves. Yet smaller than 

 the last, growing 4-6 inches high, with cottony stem and leaves, 

 and brownish yellow leaves. Dry gravelly places ; common. — 

 Fl. July, August. Annual. 



3. F. Gallica (Narrow-leaved Filago). — Like the last, but more 

 branched ; leaves narrow, long, and pointed ; those surrounding 

 the small flower-heads longer than the involucres. Local, chiefly 

 Channel Isles and South-eastern England.^Fl. July to September. 



Two other forms are described : F. apicalnta, taller than F. 

 Germanica, with blunt leaves, purple bracts, and smeUing of Tansy ; 

 and F. spathulaia, short ; with spathulate leaves and yellow- tipped 

 bracts. Both are annuals, growing in sandy places in the south- 

 east of England. 



