148 LEAFI^ETS, 



ing the winter, those of the season apparently full grown at 

 flowering time, about M to 1^ inches long including the 

 narrow and well defined petiole, the blades nearly orbicular, 



}^ to H inch in diameter, the length scarcely greater than the 



width, all very obtuse, thin, beneath obviously 3-veined under 

 the dense indument, the upper face very closely but finely 

 arachnoid- tomentose, the coat never completely deciduous : 

 flowering stems very slender, but rather notably bracted with 

 oblong and oblong-linear spreading bracts, the fertile 10 inches 

 high and subcorymbose, the heads 8 or 10 ; scales numerous 

 but too nearly equal to appear well imbricated, not woolly 

 at base, greenish almost throughout, the obtuse scarious tips 

 both short and of too greenish-white a hue to be at all con- 

 spicuous ; flowering stems of male plants barely 3 inches high, 

 their few heads subsessile, their scales with also greenish white 

 and obscure tips ; bristles of their pappus with little dilated 

 and only indistinctly serrated acute tips. 



Pine woods near Portsmouth, southern Virginia, 27 April, 

 1898, collected by Mr. Thos, H. Kearney; type in U. S. 

 Herb., sheet 355635. A very well marked member of the 

 group of species which make very little show of scarious tips 

 to the involucral scales. 



Antennaria dilatata. Plant large but of low stature, 

 the flowering stems 3 to 6 inches high, the sterile equalling 

 the fertile : basal leaves of the former season copious, surviv- 

 ing the winter in perfect condition, very large for the plant, 

 all long-petioled, the blades suborbicular, 1 to 1/i inches 

 wide, the length the same, or rarely a mere trifle greater, 

 the lower face permanently close-tomentose, the upper after 

 maturity sometimes almost perfectly glabrate, more commonly 

 whitish-spotted with small knots of the not further deciduous 

 loose tomentum : heads in the fertile plant only 3 to 5, closely 

 glomerate and appearing sessile; involucres smallish, broadly 

 turbinate, the scales well imbricated, all with short but wide 

 and rather blunt white tips : involucres in sterile plant twice 

 as numerous, 7 to 11, also not sessile, the tips of their scales 





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