1913] Long,— Southerly Range Extensions in Antennaria 119 
agrees probably represents this species. The colony was found in the 
vicinity of the Blue Mountains below Lehigh Gap Station. The 
other collection seems to me to be satisfactory A. occidentalis but 
Professor Fernald is inclined to feel that it approaches A. fallax. 
These plants are also from Corning, where Mr. Pretz tells me Anten- 
narias abound in the greatest profusion. The country is here quite 
hilly with often abrupt rises of several hundred feet, the general 
elevation ranging from four hundred to over a thousand feet. 
Our most successful Antennaria hunt, the one most full of surprises, 
was during a trip over Decoration Day in 1909 with Mr. E. B. Bar- 
tram into the mountains of the western part of Virginia near the 
Natural Bridge. The very first morning’s explorations brought to 
light, almost within sight of the famous bridge, two of the most in- 
teresting additions to the flora of this region. While I was expending 
my enthusiasm on two beautifully distinct forms of Polygala Senega 
Mr. Bartram was the fortunate discoverer of the first colony of An- 
tennaria canadensis. The plants were growing in large tangled mats 
on a moist, shaded, woodland bank. The leaves of the first colony 
examined seemed to be much longer, narrower and more pointed than 
in the common plant of the north but other plants were quite charae- 
teristic. Although so far south and occurring at only fifteen hundred 
feet elevation, the inflorescences were still mostly quite fresh and in 
good collecting condition. Only a few colonies of this species were 
found unfortunately, but this deficiency was amply made up by the 
abundance of Antennaria Parlinii everywhere in the rich, moist, 
rocky woods along Cedar Creek below the Bridge. Considerable 
variation on leaf-form was found in the many colonies collected. A 
form with oblong, rather obtuse leaves seemed to prevail. Both 
typical Parlinw and Prof. Greene’s arnoglossa (with broad, white, 
petaloid bracts) occurred, but the former was noticeably the com- 
moner. Unlike A. canadensis, plants with fresh inflorescences were 
very rare; the heads were commonly quite dried and withered. 
These two species showed rather considerable range extensions. 
A, Parlinii does not appear to be credited further south than the Dis- 
trict of Columbia region, about one hundred fifty miles to the north 
of the Natural Bridge, while the nearest station known to me for A. 
canadensis is that of Mr. C. S. Williamson at Platte Clove in the 
Catskills, approximately four hundred miles distant. The most 
! Bartonia, iii, 30 (1911). 
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