232 THE COMPOSITE FAMILY. 
4, G. uliginosum, Linn. (fig. 511). Marsh C—A much branched, 
cottony annual, seldom above 6 inches high; the leaves linear or 
narrow-oblong, the upper ones waved on the edges. Flower-heads 
small and clustered, many together, within a tuft of rather long leaves 
at the extremity of the branches. Involucral bracts brown and scarious. 
Florets about the length of the involucre, the 8 or 4 outer rows filiform, 
with a very few tubular ones in the centre. Achenes very minute, 
scarcely compressed, with a very deciduous pappus of distinct hairs. 
In fields and waste places, especially in wet, sandy situations, through- 
out Hurope and Russian Asia, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic 
regions. Commonin Britain. Fl. summer and autumn. 
VIII. ANTENNARIA. ANTENNARIA. 
Cottony perennials, with the characters of Gnaphalium, except that 
the flower-heads are dicecious, those of some individuals having filiform 
fertile florets without any tubular males, in other individuals having 
only tubular male florets ; and the involucral bracts have more scarious 
spreading tips, at least in the males. 
The species are numerous, almost limited to the mountain regions of 
the northern hemisphere. They were included in Gnaphalium, in former 
editions. 
Low plant, with 3 to 6 fower-heads in the terminal corymb . J. 4. dioica. 
Tall plant, with a large corymb of numerous flower-heads . 2. A, margaritacea. 
1. A. dioica (fig. 512). Mountain Everlasting, Cat’s-ear.—A small 
perennial, with a tufted or creeping leafy stalk, and almost simple 
flowering stems, 2 to 4 or 5 inches high. Lower leaves obovate or 
oblong ; upper ones linear, white underneath or on both sides. Flower- 
heads 3 or 4 together, in compact, terminal corymbs, and dicecious. 
In the males the inner bracts of the involucre have broad, white, petal- 
like tips, spreading like the ligulate florets of a radiating flower-head ; 
the florets all tubular and short. In the females the inner bracts are 
narrow, white at the tips, but not spreading, and the florets all filiform, 
with a long protruding pappus to the achenes. 
In mountain pastures, common in northern Europe, Asia, and America, 
to the Arctic regions, and in the great mountain-ranges of central and 
southern Europe and Russian Asia. Abundant in Scotland, Wales, 
Ireland, and many parts of England, descending occasionally nearly to 
the coast level. Fl. summer, rather early. 
2. A. margaritacea, Br. (fig. 513). Pearl A.—An erect perennial, 
2 to 3 feet high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, white and cottony under- 
neath or on both sides. Flower-heads numerous, in flat terminal 
corymbs, usually dicecious, but less absolutely so than in A. dioica ; 
the involucres of both kinds with several rows of very white, broad, 
loose, or spreading bracts. 
A North American and central Asiatic plant, long cultivated among 
our garden £verlastings, and now apparently naturalised in a few 
localities in Monmouthshire and in South Wales, Scotland, and the 
Channel Islands. FU. end of summer. 
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[Gnaphalium. 
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