188 45. coMrosiTJs. 



blunt coloured, root-Z. obovate spathulate glabrous above cottony 

 beneath, stem-l. nearly equal linear-lanceolate adpressed. — Gna- 

 phalium Sm. E. B. 267.— St. prostrate, woody, ending in a 

 tuft of many 1. and producing prostrate leafy stoles. Flowering 

 et. 4 — 8 in. bigb, quite simple, cottony. Heads 4 — 5, erect, 

 sligbtly stalked. Phyll. white or rose-colour. — (3. A. hyperborea 

 (D. Don) ; 1. cottony on both sides. E. B. 8. 2640.— Mountain 

 heaths. P. VI. VII. Cats-foot. E. S. I. 



•2. A. margaritdcea (R. Br.) ; st. erect corymbosely branched 

 above leafy, I. linear-lanceolate acute cottony below, heads in 

 level-topped corymbs.—^. B. 2018.— St. 2—3 feet high, cot- 

 tony. L. alternate, slightly cottony above, densely beneath. 

 Inv. white. Fl. yellowish. — Moist meadows, rare. Established 

 by rivers in Monm., Glam., and Merionethshires. P. VIII. E. 



Tribe VI. Anthemidea. 



Heads usually radiant, fl. of ray fern, or neuter, ligulate or 

 slender and tubular ; of disk tubular. Anth. not tailed. Style- 

 branches truncate. Pappus often wanting or crownlike, rarely 

 formed of scales or slender hairs. 



14. (22.) Achilie'a Linn. Yarrow. 



1. A. Ptar'mica (L.) ; I. shining linear-lanceolate attenuate 

 actde glabrotis smooth uniformly nndfinely serrate, teeth adpressed 

 mucronate minutely scabrous at the mai'gin, ray 8 — 12-flowered 

 equalling the involucre, corymb compound. — E. B. 757. R. 

 zvi. 1024. — St. about 2 feet high, slightly branched above, erect, 

 leafy, angular, smooth. Phyll. with a dark-brown membranous 

 margin. Limb of the radiant florets longer than broad, white. 

 Disk broad, white. L. sometimes very narrow ; lower teeth not 

 deeper than the others. — Moist meadows and thickets. P. VH. 

 Vin. Sneezewort. E. S. I. 



[A. decoldrans (Sohrad.); 1. opaque bluntish downy thickly 

 dotted coarsely and doubly serrate with spreading teeth laciniate 

 and radiating at the base, ray 6- or 6-flowered about equalling 

 the involucre. — A. serrata Sm. E. B. 2531. — Near Matlock. — 

 Not known to botanists except in gardens. P. IX.] 



[^A. tomentSsa (L.) ; I. with a linear-lanceolate outline pimia- 

 ti/ld woolly, lobes crowded linear acute. tny!d in the lowermost 

 leaves, 2 — 3-fld in the intermediate, uppermost simple, corymb 

 repeatedly compound, ray equalling about half the involucre. — 

 E. B. 2532. — St. 10 — 12 in. high, decumbent at the base, woolly, 

 simple. Phyll. woolly, edged with brown. Disk and rays 

 golden yellow. — Scarcely naturalized. P. VII. VIII.] 



