1899] Fernald, — Notes on New England Antennarias 153 
A. Brainerdii. With the habit of true 4. plantaginea (A. deci- 
piens, Greene) ; the stems slender and mostly rather low, 2 or 3 dm. 
high, bearing purplish glandular hairs mixed with the white flocculent 
indument : basal leaves dull, almost permanently arachnoid-pubescent 
above, the older sometimes becoming glabrate, obovate to orbicular- 
obovate tapering gradually to a slender petiole and, including it, 1.5 to 
4.5 cm. long, 0.75 to 2 cm. broad; cauline leaves scattered, linear- 
lanceolate, small, arachnoid above : heads corymbose as in A. Partinit : 
involucre 6 or 8 mm. high, the bracts 3-seriate, white-tipped, the outer- 
most oblong, blunt, green or tawny and lanate below, the innermost at- 
tenuate. In clay soils, VERMONT, Barber's meadow, Addison, May 27, 
1899, north of Birch Hill, New Haven, June 2, 1899, open meadows, 
New Haven, June 3, 1899, low woods, Ferrisburgh, June 4, 1899 
(Ezra Brainerd) ; Bald Mt., Shrewsbury, alt. 460 m., June 6, 1899 
(W. W. Eggleston) : MAINE, dry open hickory and pine woods, and 
on a sandy exposed bank, North Berwick, June 4, 1899 (J. C. Pariin, 
nOS. 1170, 1155). In general aspect this plant suggests a very small 
A. plantaginea, but the basal leaves are much smaller than is usual in 
that plant or in the related species, 4. Pa7Zizit, A. fallax, and A. am- 
bigens. In foliage alone it has an equally strong resemblance to 4. 
neodioica, the pubescent basal leaves being no larger than in the well 
developed plants of that species. From 4. plantaginea it is further 
distinguished by the very abundant purple glandular hairs, like those of 
A. Parlinii, and by its larger heads with broad white-tipped bracts. 
To A. Parlinit, A. Brainerdi bears but little superficial resemblance, 
the small, dull, arachnoid-pubescent basal leaves, the small more scat- 
tered arachnoid, not glandular, cauline ones rendering it habitally very 
different, although in its bracts it is very close to 4. P7Zizii, var. arno- 
glossa. From A. ambigens, too, this species differs strikingly in its small 
basal leaves, and its very much smaller and more scattered cauline ones. 
Its nearest ally perhaps is 4. fallax, but that is generally a much taller 
plant with larger leaves, glandless stem, and much narrower and more 
scarious involucral bracts. 
Since the publication in 1898 of my synopsis of the New England 
Antennarias, such modification and expansion of the treatment there 
presented has been necessary that the following key to the species as 
now understood will perhaps be of some service : — 
Stolons assurgent. 
Basal leaves and those at the tips of the stolons bright green above, glabrous 
from the first, or at most only slightly arachnoid when very young, soon 
quite glabrate. 
Basal leaves large, 5 to 12 cm. long, broadly obovate or obovate-spatulate, 
obtuse or rounded at tips. 
Stems and stolons bearing many purplish it € hairs: cauline 
leaves very glandular above: involucral bracts all scarious, mostly 
acute, the inner long-attenuate . . A. Parlinii. 
Glands generally fewer or absent: outer bracts with broad white petaloid 
tips, the inner acute, but not so attenuate, 4. Parlinti, var. arnoglossa. 
