Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 15. 
July, 1913. No. 175. 
SOUTHERLY RANGE EXTENSIONS IN ANTENNARIA. 
BAYARD Lona. 
THE appearance in print of the New Gray in 1908 with its prepos- 
sessing treatment of Antennaria — descriptions with actual distinc- 
tions; dichotomous keys with ample contrasting characters; excellent 
drawings by Mr. Schuyler Mathews which illustrate and do not 
obscure — was largely responsible for the increased interest which 
some of us at Philadelphia began to take in this genus which we had 
previously considered as sacred to the specialist. 
Our determination to collect as extensively as possible in this group 
during the following spring was made known to Professor Fernald and 
his interest solicited. He very generously agreed to examine and name 
all our prospective material. So with such encouragement for ob- 
taining a knowledge of a genus so thoroughly neglected by us, we felt 
we were making a most auspicious onset upon Antennaria. We were 
not so over-sanguine as to hope for new species in the Middle Atlantic 
States but we knew that there were additions to be made to the knowl- 
edge of at least the local distribution of our species, if not to their 
general geographic range. 
At that time there had been, apparently, no published records or 
notes on the Antennarias to be found in the Philadelphia region since 
Professor Porter’s Flora of Pennsylvania in 1903 and Keller and Brown’s 
Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity in 1905. From these two sources 
it appeared that there were but three species, Antennaria planta- 
ginifolia, A. neglecta, and A. neodioica commonly recognized to be 
generally distributed, and two others, A. Parlinii, noted from a single 
locality in the one book, and A. fallax recorded in the other volume, 
