390 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



Common or Sweet Everlasting. 



Common. Dry ground in various soils. Aug. — Sept. 



Gnaphalium decurrens Ives (decurrent). 

 Everlasting. 



Rare or local. Dry fields and woods: Southington (Bis- 

 sell), New Haven (E. Ives), Oxford, Seymour and Middle- 

 bury (Harger), Litchfield (Eaton Herb.), Huntington, New 

 Milford and Kent (Eames), Salisbury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). 

 Aug. — Sept. 



Gnaphalium uliginosum L. (growing in marshes). 

 Cudweed. Low Cudweed. 



Common. Fields and roadsides in moist ground. June — 

 Sept. 



Gnaphalium purpureum L. (purple). 

 Purplish Cudweed. 



Rare or local. Dry fields and pastures : Stonington, Gro- 

 ton and Waterford (Graves). June — Aug. 



INULA L. Elecampane. 

 Inula Helenium L. (classical name). 

 Elecampane. 



Occasional to frequent. Fields, pastures and roadsides, 

 mostly in moist rich soil. July — Sept. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 



The root is medicinal and was formerly officinal. 



POLYMNIA L. Leafcup. 

 Polymnia canadensis L. 

 Leafcup. 



Rare or local. Rocky open woods on slopes of loose trap 

 rock: North Branford (G. H. Bartlett), Durham, north end 

 of Pistapaug Pond (O. D. Allen), also in Wallingford, in a 

 similar situation y^ mile from the Durham locality (Harger). 

 Sept. 



SILPHIUM L. Rosin-weed. 

 Silphium perfoliatum L. (having leaves that meet around the 

 stem). 

 Cup Plant. 



