﻿Gnaphalium. composite. 429 



Plains of the Platte towards the Rocky Mountains, and near St. Barbara, 

 California, NultalL— Said to be nearly allied to G. spicatura, and therefore 



12. G. sylvaticum (Linn.) : stem simple, herbaceous, erect, leafy, tomen- 



head's axillary, sessile [forming a leafy spike]. DC. I. c.— Wahl. fi. Lapp, 

 p. 203 ; (FL'Dan. t. 254 ^ 1229 ;) Schkuhr, handb. t. 243. 



Greenland! and Labrador! {Herb. Schweinilz .') l^—Pursh is surely 



ichenia minutely hairy.— FiiZ. Delpk. 3. p. 192; Engl. bot. 

 ^ook. fi. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 329. G. pusillum, Hcsnke ; Schkuhr, 

 !67. Omalotheca supina, DC! prodr. 6. p 245. 



Labrador, Dr. Morrison. Greenland, Herb. DC. Dry ravi 

 i^monoosuck, White Mountains of New Hampshire, Nuttall ! (wh 

 lot since been found.)— 24! Plant 2-4 inches high. 



159. ANTENNARIA. Gartn. (excl. spec.) ; R. Br. in Linn, trans. I c. 



Heads many-flowered, dicecious; the corolla tubular, 5-tootbed, in the 

 pistillate flowers filiform. Scales of the involucre imbricated, scarious, 

 colored. Receptacle convex or nearly flat, alveolate. Style in the fertile 

 flowers 2-cleft ; in the staminate simple and undivided, or nearly so. Ache- 

 nia nearly terete. Pappus a single series of bristles, in the pistillate flowers 



tomentose-canescent herbs; with alternate entire leaves, and corymbose (or 



§ 1. Fertile heads mostly with a few imperfect staminate flowers 1 

 pappus in the sterile plant somewhat obscurely clavate: ste 

 caspilose or stoloniferous.—Marganpes, DC. 



I. A. margarilacea (R. Br. 1. c) : stem woolly-tomentose, corymb( 



woolly ; the lowt 



prodr. 6. p. 270. Gnaphalium margaritaceum, Linn. spec. 2. p. 850 ; 

 Michx. ! fl. 2. p. 127 ; Engl. hot. t. 2018; Pursh, fl- 2. p. 524 ; Darlingt.! 

 fi- Cest. p. 494 G. Americanum, Clusius, hist. 1. p. 327, /. 3. 



Dry woods and fields, Canada! Hudson's Bay, and Newfoundland ! to 

 tlie mountains of the Southern States! and west to the Rocky Mountains! 

 Unalaschka! and Oregon ! (Also naturalized? in Europe.) Aug.-Oct — 

 Stem 1-2 feet high. The sterile plant, which is scarcely known m Europe, 

 13 here nearly as abundant as the {enile.-^Everlasting. 



