COMPOSITE. 



441 



A North American and central Asiatic 

 plant, long cultivated among our garden 

 Everlastings, and now apparently na- 

 turalized in a few localities in Mon- 

 mouthshire and in South Wales. FL 

 end of summer. 



Fig. 523. 



3. Jersey Cudweed. 



Gnaphalium luteo-album, Linn. 

 (Fig. 524.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1002.) 



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 or 3 

 lines in diameter, irregularly clustered 

 in a dense corymb. Involucral scales 

 scarious at the top, of a pale-brown, yel- 

 low, 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, 

 hitherto confined to Jersey. FL sum- 

 mer and autumn. 



VOL. I. 



Fig. 524. 



2 M 



