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3. Antennaria canadensis Greene. Cana- 

 dian Cat's-foot. Fig. 4395. 

 Antennaria canadensis Greene, Pittonia 3 : 275. 1898. 



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

 tin ise of the ends of stolons spatulate to oblan- 

 ceolate, obtuse or apiculate, l'-lj' 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 1" 

 wide; inflorescence capitate to racemose-corym- 

 bose; fertile involucre about 4J" 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. 



10: 284. 



Nat. 



4. Antennaria Parlinii Fernald. Parlin's 

 Cat's-foot. Fig. 4396. 



Antennaria Parlinii Fernald, Gard. & For. 



1897. 

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

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



Hist. 28: 243. 189S. 

 A. propinqna 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 floc- 

 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'-t, long, f'-lj' wide; stem- 

 leaves lanceolate or the lower narrowly oblong ; 

 heads corymbose; involucre z\"-$" 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. 



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. 



