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GNAPHALIUM margaritaceum.
American Cudweed, or Pearly Everlasting.
SYNGENESIS Polygamia-superftua.
G en . C h a r . Recept. naked. Down rough or feathery.
Ceil, imbricated j with coloured membranous scales.
Florets of the radius awlshaped. Some florets of
the disk occasionally abortive.
S p e c . C h a r . Herbaceous. Leaves Bnear-lanceolate,
sharp-pointed, alternate. Stem branched upwards.
Corymbs level-topped.
S y n . Gnaphalium margaritaceum. Linn. Sp. Pi. 1198.
Sm. FI. Brit. 868. Huds. 360. With. 712. Bull'.
183. ed. 2. 239. Dicks. H. Siac.flasc. &. 15.
G . americanum. Raii Syn. 182.
A NATIVE of moist places near the banks of rivers, but
Ray judged it scarcely wild, probably because it is known to
abound in America. Our much esteemed friend the Rev. T.
Rutt sent it from a rivulet in the heart of Wire forest, Worcestershire,
and Dr. Salt gathered it by a rivulet at Longdon
near Litchfield. Mr. Middleton of Malton, Yorkshire, sent
a specimen to Mr. Sowerbv from the river Rhymney, Glamorganshire,
where, as Dillenius records, it is abundant, and,
JVfr. Middleton thinks, certainly wild* This flower, from its
purity and durability, an elegant emblem of immortality, is
planted, as that gentleman informs us, “ in the church-yards
of South Wales to decorate the graves of the dead;’* hence
jt becomes naturalized in such places. It is a common favourite
in cottage gardens throughout many parts of England,
flowering in August.
Root perennial, somewhat creeping. Plant 2 or 3 feet high,
cottony, especially the backs of the leaves. Flowers numerous,
corymbose, slightly aromatic, most beautiful before
they expand, the pure opaque unchangeable whiteness of the
calyx being then most conspicuous. The disk is of a dull
yellow. Receptacle granulated. Seed-down rough.
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