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COMPOSITE 



texture commonly termed everlasting. — Mountain heaths and 

 sandy places ; frequent especially in the north. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



*2. A. margaritdcea (White Everlasting of gardens). — An erect, 

 half shrubby, corymbosely-branched, leafy, cottony plant, 2 — 3 

 feet high, with runners ; linear-lanceolate acute leaves, 3 — 5 in. 

 long, smooth above ; and small heads of yellowish -flowers, with 

 white involucres, in a compound corymb. It is naturalised in 

 South Wales, the Channel Islands, and elsewhere. — Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



9. Gnaphalium (Cud- 

 weed). — Woolly plants with 

 small heads of tubular florets 

 clustered in terminal or axil- 

 lary fascicles ; bracts ad- 

 pressed, coloured ; receptacle 

 flat, naked ; outer florets 

 without stamens ; anthers 

 tailed ; pappus of one row 

 of slender, silky hairs. 

 (Name from the Greek 

 gnaphdlion, referring to the 

 woolly down.) 



1. G. uliginbsum (Marsh 

 Cudweed). — A small plant 

 3 — 6 in. high, much branch- 

 ed, woolly, white ; leaves 

 narrow, downy, over-topping 

 the terminal clusters of 

 heads ; bracts glossy, yellow- 

 ish-brown. — Wet, sandy 

 places, especially where 

 very common. — Fl. July — 



antennAria dioIca {Mountain Everlasting). 



water has stood during winter 

 September. Annual. 



2. G. luteo-dlbum (Jersey Cudweed). — A taller, less branched 

 species with heads in dense, leafless corymbs, pale straw-coloured 

 brads, and red-tinged florets, is found chiefly in the Channel 

 Islands.— Fl. July — August. Annual. 



3. G. sylvdticum (Wood Cudweed). — A white cottony plant 

 about a foot high, with an unbranched stem ; long, narrow, acute 

 leaves ; and a leafy, distant spike of yellowish heads. — Woods and 

 gravelly heaths ; common.— Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



4. G. norvegicum (Highland Cudweed). — Differing in having 

 broader leaves, a close spike of heads, and brown bracts. — Occurs 



