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bristles. — Woolly herbs, with sessile or decurrent leaves and 
clustered or corymbed heads. (Name from yvdcpc&ov, a lock of 
wool , in allusion to the floccose down of the leaves.) 
* Achenia nearly terete : pistillate flowers in several series. 
1/ O. decurrens, Ives. (Wing-margined Everlasting.) 
Stem stout, erect, branched at the top, clammy-pubescent, white- 
woolly on the branches, bearing numerous heads in dense corymbed 
clusters; leaves linear-lanceolate, partly clasping , decurrent ; scales of 
the (yellowish-white) involucre oval, acutish. 1J. — Ilill-sides, Maine 
and Vermont to New Jersey. Aug., Sept. — Plant 2° high. 
2. G. polyceplialum, Michx. (Common Everlasting.) 
Stem erect, woolly; leaves lanceolate, tapering at the base , with undu¬ 
late margins, not decurrent , smoothish above; heads clustered at the 
summit of the panicled-corymbose branches , ovate-conical before expan¬ 
sion, then obovate; scales of the (whitish) involucre ovate and oblong, 
rather obtuse ; perfect flowers few. ® - OId fields al,d woods ’ COm ' 
mon southward. — Plant fragrant, l°-2° high. 
3. G. uligiliosum, L. (Low Cudweed.) Loic, diffusely 
branched , woolly all over ; leaves lanceolate or linear, not decurrent; 
heads (small) in terminal sessile capitate clusters subtended by leaves; 
scales of the involucre oblong. ©—Low grounds and ditches by the 
road-side, everywhere. — Plant 3'-6' high. 
4. G. purpdreum, L. (Purplish Cudweed.) Stem sim¬ 
ple, or branched from the base, ascending, woolly; ieaves oblong- 
spatulate, mostly obtuse, not decurrent, green above very white w th 
close wool underneath ; heads in sessile clusters in the axils of the up¬ 
per leaves , and spiked at the wand-like summit of the stem, scales 
the involucre lance-oblong, tawny-white, the inner often marked with 
purple. - Sandy or gravelly soil, coast of Maine to Pennsylvania and 
southward. 
, , Jlchenia flattish : pistillate flowers in a single marginal row. 
5. «. sup'raum, Villars. (Mountain Dwarf Cudweed.) 
Dwarf and tufled; leaves linear, woolly; heads solitary or eW an 
spiked on the slender simple flowering stems • scales of the involucre 
brown, lanceolate, acute.-Alpine rcg.on of Mt. Washington, N. 
Hampshire, Nuttall , Oakes. 
4:7. ANTENNARIA, Gaertn. Everlasting. 
Heads many-flowered, dioecious or nearly so; the pistillate 
flowers very slender. Scales of the involucre dry and scanous, 
white or colored, imbricated. Receptacle convex or flat, not 
chaffy. Pappus a single row of bristles, which in the fertile 
ers are capillary, and in the sterile thickened and club shape 
