1402 CARDUACEAE 
A E fallax age Basal leaves 5-9 cm. long; blades sometimes shorter 
n the petioles, 2-4 cm. wide, loosely floecose and glabrate above, densely 
and closely e tomentose beneath, obovate-spatulate, rounded and mueronate 
r aeutish at pex uptly narrowed at the base, distinctly 3—5-ribbed 
blades of the stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, aeuminate: flowering stem of pistil- 
late ns s e tall, that of the staminate 1—1.5 dm. tall: pistillate heads 
9-12 mm. high, corymbose, the peduncles rarely 2 em. long; bracts of the 
c em linear- "lanceolate, acuminate, brownish e Mens at the tip: stami- 
nate heads 6-7 mm. high, corymbose, their rasta ight-brown or greenish-brown 
pde the elliptie ped white tips. [4.4 ns (Greene) Fernald. Deb ods 
fields, v m provinces, rarely Coastal a Ga. to Mo., Minn., and 
The leaf-blades are broader and more rounded at the apex in "the SEN form 
than in the no Dnm 
5. A. solitaria Rydb. Basal leaves 4-10 em. long; blades much longer than 
the Pe 1.5-4 em. wide, somewhat floccose above when young, in age 
minutely tomentulose beneath, obovate to oblanceolate-spatulate, ree att 
apex, distinctly 3—ribbed; blades of the stem-leaves linear to elli ipti ed 
tall: hea 
attenuate, pu us is own exeept the ver pu un es heads smaller; braets 
often wine-colored, i the brownish-white spatulate ips.—Wooded slopes, 
often in rather acid soil, coma Plain and adj. provinces, Ga. to La., Ind., and 
a ï. 
48. ANAPHALIS DC. Perennial, M cai bp ereet herbs. 
Leaves alternate: blades narrow, entire. Heads terminal corymb. 
app 
producing flowers distinct, that of the sterile 
flowers not thickened at the apex.—About 35 
species, natives of the north temperate zone. 
l. A. margaritacea (L.) Ben & Hook. 
Plant woolly, 2-8.5 dm tall: dus e 
linear , 5-15 m. long, attenu- 
te: involueres pearly white; outer bracts 
elliptic, th er spatulate: staminate 
corollas lon ( Y-EVER- 
mm ng.—( PEARL 
LASTING.)—Dry woods, hillsides, and clear- 
ings, in sterile and often somewhat acid soil, various provinces, in Coastal Plain 
only N, N. C. to Alas., Ont., and Newf. 
49. GNAPHALIUM L. Annual, biennial, or perennial, pubescent herbs. 
Leaves alternate: blades entire, sometimes decurrent. Heads in open or glo- 
merate cymes, panicles, or corymbs. Involucres ovoid to cylindric, several- 
an 
many-flowered: bracts various, the inner longer and es narro t th 
outer. Flowers white or cream.  Pistillate flowe ers inal: corollas filiform. 
Perfect flowers central: PEN with a cylindric- id ada throat and a 
slender tube: lobes ovate to d toid. Anthers mostly longer than the filaments. 
Fappus a series of M iE ists —About 120 species, widely distributed.— 
Sum.—CUDWEEDS.  EVERLASTI 
