GNAPHALIUM (from gnaphalon, soft down; woolly covering of the leaves). Cudweed; Everlasting. ORD.Compositoe. A genus comprising about a hundred species of hardy, stove, or greenhouse, annuals, biennials, or perennials, spread over nearly the whole globe, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle. Flower-heads yellow or white, small, sessile, often clustered, rarely forming terminal corymbs; involucral bracts imbricated, scarious (whence the English name), and often coloured at the tips. Leaves alternate, entire, sessile, decurrent, or rarely petiolate. Few of the species (four of which are natives of Britain) are worthy of special mention in this work. GNAPHALIUM decurrens (decurrent). fl.-heads white, in cymosely disposed glomerules. July and August. l. strongly scented, lanceolate or linear, white beneath. h. 2ft. to 3ft. North America. Hardy perennial. GNAPHALIUM Leontopodium. See Leontopodium alpinum. GNAPHALIUM margaritaceum (pearly). Pearl Cudweed. A synonym of Antennaria margaritacea.