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COMPOSITAE. 



VOL. III. 



Antennaria canadensis Greene, 

 dian Cat's-foot. Fig. 4395. 



Cana- 



4. Antennaria Parlinii Fernald. 

 Cat's-foot. Fig. 4396. 



Antennaria Parlinii Fernald, Card. & For. 10 : 284. 



1897- 



A. arnoglossa Greene, Pittonia 3: 318. 1898. 

 A. Parlinii arnoglossa Fernald, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist. 28 : 243. 1898. 

 A. propinqua Greene, Pittonia 4: 83. 1899. 



More or less glandular-pubescent ; stems of 

 fertile plant i-ii tall. Leaves bright green 

 and devoid of tomentum on the upper surface 

 from the time of unfolding, or very slightly floe- 

 cose when very young, the basal ones obovate or 

 spatulate to elliptic, obtuse or acutish, gradually 

 contracted into a narrow base about as long as 

 the expanded part, 2'-$' long, t'-ii' wide; stem- 

 leaves lanceolate or the lower narrowly oblong ; 

 heads corymbose ; involucre 3^"-5" high, its bracts 

 all lanceolate-acuminate or the outer ones linear- 

 oblong and obtusish. 



Fields, hillsides and woodlands, Maine to Ontario, 

 Virginia and Iowa. May-July. 



Antennaria canadensis Greene, Pittonia 3 : 275. 1898. 



Stems 8'-i2' high, slender. Basal leaves and 

 those of the ends of stolons spatulate to oblan- 

 ceolate, obtuse or apiculate, i'-i4' long, 6" wide 

 or less, gradually tapering from above the middle 

 to a long narrow base, i-nerved or with two faint 

 lateral nerves, bright green and glabrous above, 

 lanate beneath ; stolons short, leafy, assurgent ; 

 stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, distant, about I ' 

 wide ; inflorescence capitate to racemose-corym- 

 bose ; fertile involucre about 4^" high, its outer 

 bracts oblong, obtuse, the inner lanceolate, acute 

 to attenuate; bracts of the staminate involucre 

 white-tipped. 



In dry soil, Newfoundland to Connecticut, Mani- 

 toba and Michigan. May-July. 



The Old World Antennaria dioica (L.) Gaertn., 

 with stem leaves close together and rose-colored in- 

 volucral bracts, is recorded as long ago found at 

 Providence, R. I. 



Parlin's 



5. Antennaria solitaria Rydb. Single- 

 headed Cat's-foot. Fig. 4397. 



Antennaria plantaginifolia monocephala T. & G. Fl. 

 N. A. 2: 431. 1843. 



Antennaria monocephala Greene, Pittonia 3: 176. 

 1896. Not DC. 1836. 



Antennaria solitaria Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24 : 304. 

 1897. 



Stem slender, weak, floccose-woolly, 2'-io' 

 long, bearing a solitary head. Basal leaves obo- 

 vate to oblong-obovate or broadly spatulate, 3^' 

 long or less, 8"-i6" wide, obtuse or apiculate, 

 densely floccose beneath, loosely floccose, becom- 

 ing glabrate above, 3-5-nerved ; stem-leaves 

 linear, few and distant ; stolons procumbent, leafy 

 at the ends ; involucre 4"-6" high, its linear 

 white-tipped bracts very woolly. 



Woodlands, Pennsylvania to Georgia, Ohio, Ala- 

 bama and Louisiana. March-May. 



