WHITE 



tember : " The pearly everlasting is an interesting white at pres- 

 ent. Though the stems and leaves are still green, it is dry and 

 unwithering, like an artificial flower ; its white, flexuous stem and 

 branches, too, like wire wound with cotton. Neither is there 

 any scent to betray it. Its amaranthine quality is instead of 

 high color. Its very brown centre now affects me as a fresh and 

 original color. It monopolizes small circles in the midst of 

 sweet fern, perchance, on a dry hill-side." 



FRAGRANT LIFE-EVERLASTING. 



Gnaphaliiim polycephalum. Composite Family. 



Stem. — Erect ; one to three feet high ; woolly. Leaves. — Lance-shaped. 

 Flower-heads. — Yellowish- white ; clustered at the summit of the branches, 

 composed of many tubular flowers. 



This is the '' fragrant life-everlasting," as Thoreau calls it, 

 of late summer. It abounds in rocky pastures and throughout 

 the somewhat open woods. 



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