1899] Fernald, — Antennarias of northern New England 73 
plant were associated, it is quickly distinguished by its slender pro- 
cumbent stolons which are generally elongated as in 4. neglecta (though 
sometimes scarcely developed at the flowering season), and its more 
cuneate or spatulate, hardly obovate, leaves. 
The plant should take as its specific designation the name first 
applied to it as a variety : — 
Antennaria petaloidea. Stems slender, 2 to 4.5 dm. high, very 
floccose-pubescent; stolons as in 4. neglecta, slender, prostrate, gen- 
erally elongated, bracteate throughout except at the leafy tip: basal 
leaves from spatulate to cuneate-obovate, scarcely with distinct petioles, 
at first appressed-silky or somewhat arachnoid above, finally glabrate, 
or often with a more or less permanent narrow white-pubescent border ; 
stem-leaves small, linear-lanceolate, remote: heads corymbose, with 
the lower pedicels sometimes much elongated : involucre of the pistil- 
late plant 8 to 10 mm. high ; bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, brown 
or green and brown below, the blunt outer ones lanate at base, the 
inner narrower, longer and acute, all with white petaloid tips, or some- 
times with the brown chartaceous portion extending upward to the tip : 
staminate plant unknown. — 4. neodioica, Greene, var. petaloidea, Fer- 
nald, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxviii. 245. A. neglecta, Greene, var. 
subcorymbosa, Fernald, l.c. 246. 4. campestris, Fernald, l. c. 247, not 
Rydberg. In fields and on grassy banks, or rarely in open woods, 
northern New England, flowering in June and early July. The follow- 
ing specimens are referred here — Maine: Fort Kent, June r5, 1898, 
no. 2384; Ashland, June 13, 1898, no. 2386 ; Blaine, June 23, 1898, no. 
2385 ; Houlton, August, 1897 ; Island Falls, June ro, 1898, nos. 2387, 
2388; Foxcroft, June 6, 1898, nos. 2389, 2390, 2391; Milo, Septem- 
ber, 1897 ; Orono, June 4, 1898, no. 2392 (M. L. Fernald) ; Seal Har- 
bor, Mount Desert Island, July 9, 1897 (£. Z. Rand) ; Farmington, 
June, 1897 (C. H. Knowlton) ; New Hampshire: Forest Hill, Echo 
Hill, Butter Hill, etc., Franconia, June 5 to 15, 1897 (Edwin Faxon) ; 
Jaffrey, May 31, 1897 ( £. LZ. Rand & B. L. Robinson, nos. 427, 428) ; 
Vermont : Willoughby, June 9, 1898 (G. G. Kennedy & E. F. Williams). 
Var. Scariosa. Involucral bracts narrow, long-attenuate, scarious 
and lucid; the outer sometimes broader and becoming petaloid. — 
With the species and passing to it; forming extensive carpets on dry 
open hillsides or on pasture-knolls, Orono, Maine, collected by the 
author, June 3, 1898, nos. 2395, 2365; and on a dry sandy bank, 
Foxcroft, June 6, 1898, no. 2394. 
A handsome large form of A. neodioica, first collected by Mr. Rand 
on Mount Desert Island, and subsequently by Dr. Kennedy at Wil- 
loughby, is so striking as to merit distinction as 
A. NEODIOICA, Greene, var. grandis. Plants large, 3 to 5 dm. high ; 
leaves and stolons as in the species, but rather larger ; the basal leaves, 
