1914] Fernald,— Antennarias of northeastern America ist 
the median attenuate to a dark subulate tip; the upper with a linear 
scarious tip: pistillate heads 1-7, usually in a close corymb, hemi- 
spheric-campanulate, rounded at base: involucre 5.5-7 mm. high, 
4.5-8 mm. broad (in the dried specimen), with 4—6 series of very dis- 
tinctly 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: 
achenes glabrous: style yellowish, becoming brown.— NEWFOUND- 
LAND: turfy and (calcareous) rocky crests, Twillingate, July 20, 1911, 
Fernald, Wiegand & Bartram, no. 6340 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); lime- 
stone barrens near sea-level, Pointe Riche, August 4, 1910, Fernald, 
Wiegand & Kittredge, no. 4140. 
A. straminea strongly simulates A. alpina, var. cana Fernald & 
Wiegand in its small white foliage but in its involucre is very different, 
A. alpina and its varieties having much larger pistillate heads with 
long attenuate subequal very dark bracts. A. straminea in its foliage 
and inflorescences also suggests A. neodioica, var. rupicola (Fernald), 
discussed below, but that has the larger cream-colored bracts less 
imbricated and the larger basal leaves with a longer mucro at tip and 
covered with a much thinner and sparser pubescence. 
A. subviscosa, n. sp., planta dense humifusa ramis prostratis sub- 
ligneis interdum 4-5 dm. longis, stolonibus confertis; foliis basilaribus 
spathulatis obtusiusculis vix mucronatis vel breviter mucronatis 0.5- 
1.5 em. longis 2-5 mm. latis dense albido-tomentosis; caule florifero 
0.5-1.5 dm. alto omnino albido-tomentoso supra glanduloso-hirsuto; 
foliis caulinis 7-10 tomentosis, inferioribus lineari-oblanceolatis mu- 
cronatis 1.5-2.5 em. longis, superioribus lineari-attenuatis apice pu- 
bescente subscarioso subulato vel involuto; capitulis femineis 3-9 
dense vel laxe corymbosis; involucro turbinato-campanulato 5-6.5 
mm. alto; bracteis circa 3-seriatis, exterioribus 3—4 mm. longis oblongis 
subherbaceis virescentibus vel stramineis interdum  roseo-tinctis 
basi glanduloso-viscoso apice tenue obtusiusculo gilvo vel roseo-tincto, 
interioribus angustioribus acutiusculis. 
Plant densely humifuse, the trailing branches subligneous, often 
4-5 dm. long; stolons very short and crowded: leaves of the rosettes 
spatulate, obtusish, scarcely mucronate or with a short mucro, 0.5— 
1.5 em. long, 2-5 mm. broad, densely white-tomentose: flowering 
stems 0.5-1.5 dm. high, white-tomentose throughout, glandular-hir- 
sute above: cauline leaves 7-10, tomentose; the lower linear-oblan- 
ceolate, mucronate, 1.5-2.5 em. long; the upper linear-attenuate, 
with a subulate or involute subscarious pubescent tip: pistillate heads 
3-9, densely or loosely corymbose: involucre turbinate-campanulate, 
5-6.5 mm. high: bracts about 3-seriate; the outer 3-4 mm. long, 
oblong, subherbaceous, greenish or stramineous, often rose-tinged, 
