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THE COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate 8. Field C. 



Leaves linear-subulate 9. Narrow C. 



Involucres loosely clustered, 2 or 3 lines diameter. 



Florets all within the inner bracts of the involucre 3. Jersey C. 



1. Mountain Cudweed. Gnaphalium dioicum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 522.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 267. Antennaria, Brit. Fl. A. hyperborea, Eng. Bot. 

 Suppl. t. 2640. Mountain Everlasting, or Cafs-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 ob ovate or oblong ; upper 

 ones linear, white underneath or on both 

 sides. Flower-heads 3 or 4 together, in 

 compact, terminal corymbs, and dioe- 

 cious. 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, 

 Fig. 522. white at the tips, but not spreading, and 



the florets all filiform, with a long pro- 

 truding 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 Scot- 

 land, Wales, Ireland and many parts of England, descending occa- 

 sionally nearly to the coast level. Fl. summer, rather early. 



2. Pearl Cudweed. 



Gnaphalium margaritaceum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 523.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2018. Antennaria, Brit. Fl.) 



An erect perennial, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, white 

 and cottony underneath or on both sides. Flower-heads numerous, in 

 flat terminal corymbs, usually dioecious, but less absolutely so than 

 in the mountain C. ; the involucres of both kinds with several rows of 

 very white, broad, loose or spreading bracts. 



