246 xlyi. composite: corymbiferas. \Antennana. 
long ones, or imbricated. Style scarcely longer than the corolla, 
with short oblong hispid branches. Anthers ecaudate. Florets 
all perfect, deeply 5-cleft (yellow). — Named from linnm , flax , 
and osyris, an appellation given by Pliny to a plant with supple 
branches and leaves like flax, obviously from the Hebrew asar 
or oser, tying or binding , whence also osier in English. 
1. L. vulgaris Cass. ( Flax-leaved G.) ; herbaceous, leaves 
linear glabrous, scales of the involucre leafy loosely spreading, 
Chrysocoma Linosyris L . ; E. B. t. 2505. 
Limestone cliffs, rare. Berryhead, Devon ; Worle-hill, Somerset ; 
Ormeshead, N. Wales, abundant. If.. 8,9. — Leaves very numerous, 
more or less dotted. 
30. Antennaria Gcertn. Everlasting. 
Dioecious. Pappus pilose, of the sterile heads thickened or 
subplumose upwards. Receptacle naked. Involucre imbricated, 
the inner scales coloured or scariose at the end. Anthers with 
bristles at the base. — Name from the hairs of the pappus of 
the sterile florets resembling the antennae of some insects. 
1. A. dioica Gaertn. ( Mountain E., or Cat's-foot ); sterile' 
shoots procumbent, flowering-stems erect simple, corymbs 
crowded, root-leaves spathulate woolly beneath, cauliue ones 
nearly equal linear-lanceolate adpressed. — a. leaves greenish 
and naked above when old. Gnaphalium L. : E. B. t. 267. — 
13. leaves woolly on both sides. A. hyperborea D. Don: 
E. B. S. t. 2640. 
Mountain heaths, abundant. — ;3. Isle of Skye. 2/.. 6, 7. — 
Flowering-stems 3 — 8 inches high. 
2. A. *margaritdcea It. Br. ( Pearly E.) ; sterile procumbent 
shoots none, stems erect herbaceous tomentose branched above, 
leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate cottony especially beneath, 
heads in level-topped corymbs, scales of the involucre (white) 
obtuse. Gnaphalium L.: E. B. t. 2018. 
Moist meadows, rare. Near Bocking, Essex (Bay); banks of the 
Wye, between Coldwell and English Bicknor; Monmouthshire ; banks 
of the Rumney, Glamorganshire ; and near Dolgelly, Merionethshire. 
Jersey and Guernsey. If.. 8. — A North- American species, much 
cultivated. 
31. Gkaphaeium Linn. Cudweed. 
Heads heterogamous, with one or numerous rows of filiform 
pistillate florets in the circumference. Pappus pilose. Recep- 
tacle flat and quite naked. Involucre imbricated, the scales 
scariose towards the extremity. Anthers with bristles at the 
base. Style of the perfect florets with short truncate branches 
