. Flowers of the field. Botany. t68 COROLLIFLOR^ 2. G. sylvaticum (Wood Cudweed).—A cottony plant, with a simple stem, 6-12 inches high ; narrow leaves ; and bearing its heads of yellow florets in a leafy spike. Woods and gravelly pas- tures ; common.—Fl. July to September. Perennial. 3. G. supinum (Dwarf Cudweed).—2-3 inches high, with tufted leaves, and flowering stems almost bare of leaves. Confined to the summits of Highland mountains.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 4. G. Luteo album (Jersey Cudweed).—About 6 or 8 inches high, cottony ; leaves narrow ; flower-heads in dense corymbs, with the
. Flowers of the field. Botany. t68 COROLLIFLOR^ 2. G. sylvaticum (Wood Cudweed).—A cottony plant, with a simple stem, 6-12 inches high ; narrow leaves ; and bearing its heads of yellow florets in a leafy spike. Woods and gravelly pas- tures ; common.—Fl. July to September. Perennial. 3. G. supinum (Dwarf Cudweed).—2-3 inches high, with tufted leaves, and flowering stems almost bare of leaves. Confined to the summits of Highland mountains.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 4. G. Luteo album (Jersey Cudweed).—About 6 or 8 inches high, cottony ; leaves narrow ; flower-heads in dense corymbs, with the involucral bracts yellowish, and reddish florets. Channel Isles and some of the eastern counties of England.—Fl. July, August. Annual. Gnaphalium leontopodium is the famous " Edelweiss Swiss Alps. of the. 30. FiLAGO I. F. Germanica (Common FUago). — Stem cottony, erect, terminating in a globular assem- blage of heads, from the base of which rise two or more flower-stalks, which are proliferous in like manner. A singular little plant, 6-8 inches high, well distinguished by the above character. From this curious mode of growth the plant was called by the old botanists Herha impia, (the undutiful herb), as if the young shoots were guilty of disrespect by overtopping the parent. Dry gravelly places ; common.—Fl. June, July. Annual. FiLAGo Germanica 2. F. minima (Least Filago).—Stem erect, re- (Common Filago) peatedly forked ; leaves very narrow, cottony, pressed to the stem ; heads conical, in lateral and terminal clusters, shorter than the leaves. Yet smaller than the last, growing 4-6 inches high, with cottony stem and leaves, and brownish yellow leaves. Dry gravelly places; common.— Fl. July, August. Annual. 3. F. Gallica (Narrow-leaved Filago).—Like the last, but more branched ; leaves narrow, long, and pointed ; those surrounding the small flower-heads longer than the involucres. Local, chiefly Channel Isles and South-eastern England.^Fl. July to Se
Size: 1179px × 2119px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectbotany, bookyear1908
