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3. parvifolia: heads glomerate-capitate ; leaves silvery tomentose-canes- 

 purple -A. parvifolia, Nul. ! in trans. Jmcr. p/u7? sZ^in^^Tcr.fl'^ 



Arctic America ! and from Newfoundland! and Labrador to the Rocky 

 Mountains! /?. Black Hills of the Platte, Nuttall! Wind River Chain of 

 the Rocky Mountains, Lieut. Fremont ! (a. Sf /J.) ^nam ol 



6. ^. plantaginifolia (Hook. ! 1. c): sterile stems stoloniferous or fla- 

 ge hforrn, the flowering simple and scape-like ; leaves silky-viUous on one or 

 the rad1Sll,e?roled"o?'al oJ loTate tp^ukT Y^'^^rf canescent beneath ; 



the involucre with white (rarely purplish) erose or crenulate tips'; those of 

 the sterile plant obtuse, of the fertile narrow and mostly acute ; achenia mi- 

 nutely glandular-papillose.-A. plantaginea, DC. ! I. c. Gnaphalium plan- 

 tngmiUmm Linn.J spec. 2. p. 850 ; Willd. spec. 3. p. 1884. (G. planta- 

 g.nis folio, PUk. aim. t. 348, /. 9.) G. plantagineum, Murr. syst. p. 748 ; 

 Pursh, Jl. 2. p. 525 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 327. G. dioicum, var. plantaginffolium 

 ^iic^x.^/ p. 128. G. dioicum & var, plantaginifolium, Darlingt.! 



p. monocephala : stems shorter, bearing a single larger head. Michx. I. c. 

 — Gnaphahum monocephalon, Carpenter! mss. 



Woods and sterile knolls, dec. from Hudson's Bay ! to Florida ! Louis- 

 iat:a! and west to the Rocky Mountains! i3. Louisiana, Prof. Carpenter! 

 Near Philadelphia, iVfr.^Lea .' ^&c.^ Apri^May : m the Southern States, 



more or less evidently thickened towards the a^exl— Plantain-leaved 

 Cud'weed. 



^Qs 'h^' ^j"'"^*'^ (Hook. !^1. c.) :^st^rile stems stoloniferous; leaves tomen- 



oblong or lanceolate ; heads loosely racemose-paniculate ; scales of the in- 

 ofth'^'^f '^^j^'^^y glabrous, greenish; those of the sterile plant obtuse; the inner 

 Alpine woods of the Rocky Mountains (probably about lat. 52°), Drvm- 

 monrf /—Fertile plant often a foot or more in height ; the heads loosely dis- 



l^^^^^l'TOus, very obscurely thickened above : the style slightly 2-cleft at 



crowded on the^short branches 'of the suffruticose caudex, oblong-spatulate or 

 nearly linear, silky-villous ; heads solitary, on short peduncles, scarcely ex- 

 sened beyond the leaves ; scales of the involucre brownish, ^the exterior 



"1 the fertile heads ; pap^s of the former capillary, sparsely 

 oarbellate towards the apex.— Gnaphalium (subgen. Omaloth^ 

 Pbania) dimorphum, Nutt.! in trans. Amer. phil. 

 Black Hills of the Platte,- Nuitall! May.— Plant 



§ Herero- 

 00. {n. ser.) 7. p. 405. 

 -3 inches high. Leaves 



- A t ttistandlrThrcipi/^pC^^^ 



^ ' ■ ■ ' ;d even in the slight manner of 



- - , although 



eding species, is yet manifestly barbellate (under a lens) t 



