932 3 THE COMPOSITE FAMILY. [Filago. 
species from small specimens of G'naphalium uliginosum, which it sometimes 
resembles. | 
In fields and sandy wastes, in western and southern Europe, becoming 
rarein Germany. Very local in Britain, having been chiefly recorded from 
some of the south-eastern counties of England, and the Channel Islands. 
Fl, summer. ; 
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VII. GNAPHALIUM. CUDWEED. 
Herbs, more or less covered with a grey or white cottony wool; the 
leaves narrow and entire, Flower-heads small, sessile, often clustered, 
rarely forming terminal corymbs. Involucral bracts imbricated, cottony 
outside, and more or less dry, scarious, and often coloured at the tips, and 
sometimes ‘spreading, but not in the British species. Receptacle small, 
without any scales. Florets of the centre tubular, often barren, those of 
the circumference filiform, female, in several rows. Anthers with minute 
bristles or hairlike points (tails) at their base. Style-branches truncate. 
Achenes with a pappus of simple hairs. 
A large genus generally spread over gies the whole globe from the 
tropics to the Arctic Circle. 
Perennial. Flower-heads in oblong or elongated ad Spikes. 
Achenes not flattened P . 2. G. sylvaticum, 
Dwarf perennial. Flower-heads terminal, solitary or very ea” 
Achenes flattened 3 . 4G. supinum, 
Annual or biennial. Flower-heads irregularly clustered in a 
terminal corymb. Achenes not flattened - Ll. G. lutec-album, 
Annual. Flower-heads small and Gener within a butt of 
leaves longer than the heads . : . . 4. G. uliginosum. 
The other species included in alias in ae former editions will 
now be found under /%/ago and Antennaria. Most of the composite Hver- 
lastings of our gardens belong to the allied genus Helichrysum, of which 
no species are British. 
1, G. luteo-album, Linn. (fig. 506). Jersey Cudweed.—An annual 
or biennial, scarcely a foot high, the stems erect or ascending and all 
covered with soft white cotton. Leaves narrow. Flower-heads 2 to 3 lines 
in diameter, irregularly clustered in a dense corymb. Involucral scales 
scarious at the top, of a pale brown, yellow, or dirty white colour, but not 
spreading. Florets very numerous, mostly female and filiform, with a few 
tubular male or complete ones in the centre. 
In sandy fields, pastures, and waste places, dispersed nearly all over the 
temperate and warmer regions of the globe, extending in Europe to the 
Baltic, but not beyond. In the British Isles, appearing now and then in 
the Eastern counties and Channel Islands. Fl. summer and autumn. | 
2. G. sylvaticum, Linn. (fig. 507). Wood Cudweed.—Stock peren- 
nial, tufted or shortly creeping, with long-stalked lanceolate, leaves. 
Flowering stems nearly simple, erect, from 2 to 6 or 8 inches high, with 
linear leaves, usually cottony on the under side only, but sometimes on both 
sides. Flower-heads small, cylindrical, or ovoid, either solitary or in little 
clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, forming a long, leafy spike. In- 
volucres scarcely cottony, with brown, shining bracts; the outer filiform _ 
florets more numerous than the inner tubular ones, Achenes slender, 
nearly cylindrical, 
