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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EDELWEISS , known botanically as Leontopodium alpinum, a member of the See also:

FAMILY

family See also:

COMPOSITAE

Compositae, a native of the See also:

ALPS

Alps of Central See also:

EUROPE

Europe. It is a small See also:

HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb reaching about 6 in. high, with narrow See also:

white woolly leaves, and terminal See also:

flower-heads enveloped in woolly bracts. The woolly covering enables the plant to thrive in the exposed situations in which it is found, by protecting it from See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and from drying up through excessive loss of moisture. It is grown in See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain as a See also:

rock-plant.

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