. Flowers of the field. Botany. COMPOSITE FAMILY 257 2. F. apiiuliita (Apiculate C.'udweed).—A taller, more greenish species, with blunt apiculate haves; heads larger than F. ger- iniim'cn, to—20 in a clustci', jirominently 5-angled, in clusters which often appear lateral from the development of only one pro- liferous branch, and are overtopped by i or 2 blunt leaves ; bracts with smooth reddish tips.—Sandy places ; rare. The whole plant has a smell of Tansy.—Tl. July, August. .Vnnual. 3. F. spalhuldia (Spathulate Cudweed).—A'nother closely allied leaves spathulate ; uigled, in clusters specie
. Flowers of the field. Botany. COMPOSITE FAMILY 257 2. F. apiiuliita (Apiculate C.'udweed).—A taller, more greenish species, with blunt apiculate haves; heads larger than F. ger- iniim'cn, to—20 in a clustci', jirominently 5-angled, in clusters which often appear lateral from the development of only one pro- liferous branch, and are overtopped by i or 2 blunt leaves ; bracts with smooth reddish tips.—Sandy places ; rare. The whole plant has a smell of Tansy.—Tl. July, August. .Vnnual. 3. F. spalhuldia (Spathulate Cudweed).—A'nother closely allied leaves spathulate ; uigled, in clusters species, whitish, shorter, branched lower down heaels larger, 8—15 in a cluster, prominently overtopped by 2—3 acute leaves ; brads with smooth vellow tips.— Dry fields ; not common. — Tl. July, August. Annual. 4. F. mi 111 Ilia (Least Cudweed). —A smaller, erect, repeatedly forked, greyish plant. 4—6 in. high ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, ad- pressed, cottony ; heads 3—6 together m terminal and clusters, brownish-yellow. — Dry gravelly places : common. — Tl. June—September. Annual. 5.* F. gdlliea (Narrow-leaved Cudweed).—A slender, repeatedly forked plant, with linear acute and afterwards revolute leaves longer than the yellowish flourr-heaJs, which are borne in axillary clusters of 2 — 6 together.—Sandy fields in Essex, Hertfordshire, and Bucking- hamshire ; not indigenous. — Tl. July—September. Annual. 5. (Everlasting).—AVoolly plants ^\ith flozi'er-heads dicecious or nearly so ; florets all tubular ; pappus of one row of hairs, those of the staminate florets club-shaped. (Name from the aiitenncE of a butterfly which the pappos-hairs of the staminate florets resemble.) r. A. dioica (Cats-foot, ]vIountain Everlasting, or Cudweed).— The only British species, a pretty little plant, ,3—6 in. high, with numerous prostrate shoots : leaves spathula|e, apiculate, green above, cottony below ; heads 2—5, ni a corymb,
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