676 COMPOSITAE 
3. A. neglecta, Greene. (Fig. 8, pl. 187.) Fretp Catsroor. Simi- 
lar to No. 2, but basal leaves are inversely egg-shaped. Abundant in old 
fields and pastures. April-June, 
4. A. plantaginifolia, (L.) Richards. (Fig. 9, pl. 187.) PLANTAIN- 
LEAVED EveRLASTING. Larger than either of the preceding forms and 
leaves much broader, Open woods, in all of our area, April-June. 
23. ANAPHALIS, DC. 
Has the characters of Antennaria but in the pistillate flowers the bris- 
tles of the aigrette are not united and those of the staminate flowers, which 
are often club-shaped at the top are, in Anaphalis, not thickened or only 
slightly so. There are no stolons (runners). 
A. margaritacea, (L.) Benth. and Hook. (Fig. 3, pl. 187.) LaARGE- 
FLOWERED EVERLASTING, Plant usually rather more than a foot high, but 
sometimes reaches a height of 3 ft., the stem white woolly, branching at 
top into a broad rather flat cluster of rounded white heads. Leaves alter- 
nate, linear lance-shaped, light green but downy and woolly beneath. Heads 
many, about } in. broad, round, the scales of the involucre pearly white. 
Dry hilly fields) Common. July-Sept. 
24. GNAPHALIUM, L. 
Woolly herbs with alternate leaves and clusters of many or few heads, 
branching diffusely or nearly erect. Heads of tubular flowers only, the 
outer bearing pistils the central all perfect, i. e., with both stamens and 
pistils. Seales of the involucre dry, leathery, white or colored; recep- 
tacle flat, without chaff. Anthers tailed at base. Aigrette of a single row 
of bristles. 
Low, tufted mountain herbs with heads in a rounded group or arranged in such 
groups one above the other, involucre bracts turning brown . . . G. supinum 
Low diffuse herbs with heads in dense leafy rounded groups, bracts turning 
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rect, somewhat tall herbs, with heads in spreading diffuse clusters. 
Leaves not decurrent on the stem; heads mostly conical or slender 
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Leaves decurrent on the stem, heads bell-shaped . . .« « « G. decurrens 
Erect, the heads arranged in a spike or terminal cluster . . . »« G. purpureum 
1. G. obtusifolium, L. (Fig. 1, pl. 187.) Swerer Evertastine. (G4. 
polycephalum, Mich.) Stem erect, 1 to 38 ft. high, somewhat woolly. 
Leaves lance-shaped to linear, without leaf stalks, white woolly beneath, 
usually dark green above. Heads very numerous in clusters of 1 to 5 
which altogether form a large, spreading diffuse compound eluster. The 
individual heads conical then egg-shaped. Seales white, egg-shaped. Com- 
mon in fields and woods. Aug.-Sept. 
2. G. decurrens, Ives. (Fig. 6, pl. 187.) CrtamMmy Evertastrina. 
Stem 2 to 3 ft. high; plant much resembling the preceding, but the lance- 
shaped leaves are decurrent on the stem. Heads less conical. Open 
places, most of our area. July-Sept. 
3. G. uliginosum, L. (Fig. 2, pl. 187.) Low Cupwrep. Mostly dif- 
fusely branched and spreading but stems may be more or less erect, 2 to 8 
in. high. Plant woolly. Leaves linear or spatula-linear. Heads in rounded 
