COMPOSITE. 191 



oled, nodding. Cultivated in garden?. Stem 3 to 4 feet high, with simple branch- 

 es and racemes of yellow flowcra. Heads about 21 flowered. From Austria. 



•45. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. Cudweed. 



Gr. gnaphalon, a lock of wool ; in allusion to the floccose down of the leaves. 



Heads many-flowered; the flowers all tubular; the out- 

 er pistillate and very slender, the central perfect. Invol- 

 i ucre ovate ; scales imbricated in several rows. Recepta- 

 cle flat, naked. Pappus a single row of capillary rough 

 bristles. — Woolly herbs, icith alternate sessile or decurrent en- 

 tire leaves, and clustered or corymued heads of whitish -yellow or pur ~ 

 jjlish flowers. 



1. G. POLYCEPHELUM, Michx. Fragrant Life-everlast- 

 ing. 



Stem erect, woolly; leaves lanceolate, tapering to the base, with wavy margin?, 

 not decurrent, smoothish above, white tomentose beneath; heads obovate, cluster- 

 ed at the summit of the paniclcd-corymbose branches ; involucre scales ovate aud 

 oblong. 



Old fields and woods ; common. Annual. July — Sept. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, 

 often much branched at the summit. Leaves sessile, cottony beneath. Flowers t^s. 

 crowded clusters at tbe ends of the branches, yellowish-white. Whole plant fra- 

 grant. 



'2. G-. uligonosum, L. .Low Cudweed. Low Life-ev- 

 erlasting. 



Stem simple, or branched, woolly all over; leaves lanceolate or linear; heads 

 small In terminal sessile capitate clusters; involucre scales oblong, inner acute. 



»Wet grounds, roadsides; common every- where. Annual. July — Sept. Stem 4 

 to 6 inches high, much branched. Leaves numerous, acute, narrow at the base ; 

 involucre scales yellowish-brown, shining. Whole plant clothed with whitish 

 down. 



3. Gr. purpureum, L. Purple Li fe-everlasting. 



Stem simple or branched from the base, ascending woolly; leaves oblong-spatn- 

 late, mostly obtuse, green above, very white with close avooI underneath; heads in 

 sessile clusters in the axils of. the upper leaves, and spiked at the summit of the 

 stem ; involucre scales lance-oblong, tawny, the inner often marked with purple. 



Gravelly soil, sandy fields and pastures; common. Annual. June. — Stem 8 

 12 inches high, sending out shoots at the base. Heads somewhat spiked at the 

 top of the stem, with purplish scales and yellow corollas. 



.46. ANTENNARIA, Gsert. Everlasting. 



■Name in allusion to the bristles of the pappus, which resemble antenna. 



Heads many-flowered, dioecious or nearly so, corolla tu- 

 bular ; pistillate flowers filiform, 5-toothed. Involu- 

 cre scales dry and scarious, white or colored, imbricated. 

 Receptacle convex or flat not chaffy. Aciienia nearly 

 terete. Pappus a single row of bristles, in the fertile flow- 

 ers capillary, in the gtaminate club-shaped. — Perennial white- 



