GENUS 45. THISTLE FAMILY. 
4. Gnaphalium palistre Nutt. Western Marsh 
Cudweed. Fig. 4409. 
Gnaphalium palustre Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 7: 
403. 1841. 
Annual; diffusely branched from the base, densely 
but loosely floccose-woolly all over, 2’-8’ high. Leaves 
sessile, oblong, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulate, 
obtuse or acutish, 6-12” long, 14-3” wide; heads 
about 2” high, several together in leafy-bracted glom- 
erules; involucre more or less woolly, its bracts linear 
or lanceolate, acute, white or pale yellow; pappus- 
bristles distinct, separately deciduous. 
In moist wet soil, Saskatchewan to Montana, western 
Nebraska and New Mexico, west to British Columbia and 
California. May—Aug. 
5. Gnaphalium uligindsum L. Low or 
Marsh Cudweed. Wartwort. Mouse- 
ear. Fig. 4410. 
Gnaphalium uliginosum L. Sp. Pl. 856. 1753. 
Annual; diffusely branched from the base, or 
the stems sometimes erect or ascending, ap- 
pressed-woolly all over, 2’-8’ high. Leaves sessile, 
spatulate-linear, linear, or the lower oblanceolate 
or spatulate and narrowed into petioles, all ob- 
tuse or obtusish, generally mucronulate, 1’-14’ 
long; heads about 2” high, numerous in dense 
leafy-bracted terminal glomerules; bracts of the 
involucre oblong or oblong-lanceolate, brown, the 
outer obtuse or obtusish and more or less woolly, 
the inner acute; pappus-bristles distinct, sepa- 
rately deciduous. 
In damp soil, Newfoundland to Virginia, west to 
western Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and 
Oregon, and Indiana. Also in Europe. July—Sept. 
6. Gnaphalium supinum L. Dwarf Cudweed. 
Fig. 4411. 
Gnaphalium supinum L. Syst. Ed. 2, 234. 1767. 
Perennial, white-woolly, much tufted; stems sim- 
ple, 1’-3# high. Leaves mainly basal, linear, acute, 
narrowed at the base, sessile, 6’-12” long, 1/2” 
wide; heads few or several, capitate or short-spicate, 
about 3” high; flowers yellowish; bracts of the invo- 
lucre brown, glabrous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute; pappus-bristles distinct, separately de- 
ciduous. 
Alpine summit of the White Mountains of New Hamp- 
shire, and of Mt. Katahdin, Maine; Labrador and Green- 
land, and on high mountains in Europe and Asia. Called 
also mountain-cudweed. July-Aug. 
