100 Rhodora [May 
(1914).—Known only from northeastern LABRADOR! (Weitz et al.). 
Fl. August. 
6. A. STRAMINEA Fernald. Fic. 8. Plant humifuse, the leafy 
stolons very short or slightly elongated (up to 7 em. long): leaves of 
the rosette spatulate, subacute, barely mucronate, 5-12 mm. long, 2-4 
mm. broad, white above with dense fine tomentum: flowering stem 3-14 
cm. high, slender, remotely leafy: cauline leaves 8-10, linear, 6-14 mm. 
long, 1-2 mm. wide; the median attenuate to a dark subulate tip; 
the upper with a linear scarious tip: pistillate heads 1-7, usually in a 
close corymb, hemispheric-campanulate, rounded at base: involucre 
5.5-7 mm. high, 4.5-8 mm. broad (in the dried specimens), with 4-6 
series of very distinctly imbricated bracts: the outer bracts ovate or oblong, 
brown, slightly lanate at base, with a thin chartaceous stramineous 
obtuse or subacute tip; the median oblong, with a deltoid obtuse or 
subacute stramineous tip; the inner with a lanceolate erose stramineous 
tip: corollas 3.74.2 mm. long: achenes glabrous, 1.4 mm. long: 
longer pappus-bristles 4.5-5 mm. long: style yellowish, becoming 
brown: staminate plant unknown.—Ruopora, xvi. 130 (1914).— 
Rocky or turfy calcareous barrens and headlands bordering Notre 
Dame and Ingornachoix Bays, NEWFOoUNDLAND. Fl. July, early 
August. 
7. A. ALBICANS Fernald. Fic.6. Plant humifuse, the leafy stolons 
very short (up to 2 em. long): basal leaves spatulate, subacute or ob- 
tuse, scarcely mucronate, 3-8 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, white above 
with dense minute somewhat shining tomentum: flowering stem 4.5-9 
cm. high, slender, somewhat remotely leafy: cauline leaves 9-15, 
linear, 6-12 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; the median attenuate, subulate 
at tip; the upper with a glabrous linear scarious tip 2-2.5 mm. long: 
pistillate heads (1—)2-5 in glomerules, turbinate-campanulate: involucre 
! As noted when A. pygmaea was published, this is the plant which Gray in the 
Synoplical Flora treated as A. carpathica (Wahlenb,) R. Br.: “Labrador (a mono- 
cephalous form!)." But Gray, of course, was writing long before the intensive and 
highly productive studies of the genus had begun. A. carpathica belongs to the very 
strongly defined non-stoloniferous group of species with erect and elongate basal 
leaves (the section including A. eucosma Fernald & Wiegand, A. pulcherrima (Hook.) 
Greene, A. lanata (Hook.) Greene, etc.), while Gray's ‘‘monocephalous form" is a 
humifuse plant with depressed rosettes of tiny leaves. Dr. Theodor Holm, lamenting 
the disappearance of the name A. carpathica from American literature, cites Gray's 
record of the Labrador plant (A. pygmaea), which was not understood by Gray, as 
proof that A. carpathica does grow in America, though in Labrador it so far departs 
from the European type as to have only a single head (Ruopona, xxii. 142); and he 
reinforces his argument, that A. carpathica is North American, by the statement that, 
" Having examined a number of specimens of A. lanata Greene I find it impossible to 
distinguish them from A. carpathica.” I have before me 19 collections of A. carpathica 
of Europe and 26 of the Rocky Mountain A. lanata. In the former 2 to 4 of the median 
and upper cauline leaves end in a lance- or linear-subulate scarious tip, only 1 or 2 
of the uppermost leaves ever showing dilated appendages; but in A. lanata 4 to 9 
of the cauline leaves have broad and conspicuous pennant-like appendages. This 
perfectly obvious character, supplemeuting the broader leaves, the smaller heads, 
shorter corollas and shorter pappus, clearly distinguishes A. lanata from A. carpathica 
and it is doubtful if other students of Antennaria will follow Holm in forcing it and 
the wholly different A. pygmaea back into the European A. carpathica. 
