This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
M. vulgare: stem 1 1/2 foot high, with spreading branches, thickly covered with white cottony wool; leaves stalked, orbicular, soft, much wrinkled; flowers in dense whorls or clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, small, dirty white. - Roadsides and waste places. Fl. July.
 
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