COMPOSITE. 



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C, but the filiform florets are much 

 fewer, and the achenes broader and evi- 

 dently flattened. 



An Arctic and high alpine plant, ex- 

 tending over the principal mountain- 

 ranges of Europe and western Asia to the 

 Arctic Circle. Not uncommon in the 

 Scotch Highlands. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 526. 



6. Marsh Cudweed. Gnaphalium uliginosum, Linn. 



(Fig. 527.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1194. Cudtueed.) 



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 extre- 

 mity of the branches. Involucral bracts 

 brown and s carious. Florets about the 

 length of the involucre, the 3 or 4 outer 

 rows filiform, with a very few tubular ones 

 in the centre. Achenes very minute, 

 scarcely compressed, with a very decidu- 

 ous pappus of distinct hairs. 



In fields and waste places, especially 

 in wet, sandy situations, throughout 

 Europe and Russian Asia, from the Me- 

 diterranean to the Arctic regions. Com- 

 mon in Britain. Fl. summer and autumn. Fig. 527. 



7. Common Cudweed. Gnaphalium germanieum, WillcL 

 (Fig. 528.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 946. Filago, Brit. Fl. F. apiculata, and F. sjpatJiulata, 

 Bab. Man. Cudweed.) 



An erect, cottony annual, about 6 or 8 inches high, simple or 

 branched at the base ; each stem terminated either by a single globu- 

 lar cluster of flower-heads, or throwing out immediately under it 2 



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