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stems covered with purplish-black hairs. The lower leaves 

 are numerous elliptic and nearly smooth, while the stem 

 leaves are very hairy. The involucre is thickly covered with 

 purplish-black wool and the fifty to sixty rays are white or 

 pinkish. 



Erigeron cccspitosus, or Tufted Fleabane, has very tufted 

 white-haired stems growing from a deep root. The leaves 

 are also white-hairy narrow and have even margins, the 

 involucre is hemispheric, its bracts narrow pointed and 

 white-hairy, and the forty to sixty rays are white or pinkish. 



WHITE EVERLASTING 



Antennaria racemosa. Composite Family 



Freely surcnlose by long, slender, sparsely-leafy stolons, lightly woolly. 

 Stems: bearing numerous racemosely-disposed heads. Leaves: broadly 

 oval, acute at each end, densely tomentose beneath, green and glabrous 

 above; involucre campanulate; bracts green. Flowers: staminate and 

 pistillate heads w^hite-tipped. 



Every traveller will recognize the Everlastings at a 

 glance, with their dry, crackling little flowers and partially, 

 if not entirely, silky whitish leaves ; the only difficulty lies 

 in deciding to what species any particular plant belongs. 



The easiest way to distinguish the White Everlasting is 

 by the loose separate fashion in which its flower-heads grow, 

 just a few on each little stalk and none of them bunched to- 

 gether. 



Antennaria Hozvellii, or Mouse-ear Everlasting, differs 

 from the preceding species in having very closely clustered 

 flower-heads and much more silky leaves. The leaves of 

 both these plants are woolly and white underneath and 

 smooth and green on the top. The fertile plants are taller 

 than the sterile plants, and the little heads of fertile florets 



