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reduced examples of true A. plantaginifolia by perfectly white 
instead of purple styles, and is further well characterized by very 
small, orbicular to obovate, short-petioled basal leaves, often in a 
close rosette, their blades only 0.75-1.5 cm. broad; the cauline 
leaves are mostly blunt or rounded at the apex, their upper surface 
invested with a minute appressed tomentum quite different from 
the loosely arachnoid pubescence characteristic of the attenuate- 
tipped cauline leaves of true A. plantaginifolia. Not any of the 
pistillate plants were taller than 10-15 cm., and the few staminate 
plants found were only 3—5 cm. high; in several of them a few of 
the involucral bracts were bright rose color. Altogether the plant 
possesses a combination of striking characters that give it quite the 
aspect of a most distinct species. But certain Nantucket speci- 
mens of A. plantaginifolia show a tendency to develop somewhat 
similar characters, thus making it doubtful whether the smaller 
plant is other than a localized variety of the common species. 
*ANTENNARIA FALLAX Greene. 
On Prospect Hill in the western outskirts of the town, also on 
a dry slope at Capaum Pond, only a few plants at each station. 
In full flower June 10, 1909; flowers passing, June 5, 1911. A 
stout form of the species, becoming 4 dm. high, the acute leaves 
2-3 cm. broad, pubescent on the upper surface; some stems with 
a few purplish glandular hairs below the rather close corymb. 
*ANTENNARIA NEODIOICA Greene. 
Rather common locally, but wanting in many parts of the 
island; perhaps most frequent on the rolling commons westward 
from the town; Madequet, Shawkemo, Siasconset. In full bloom, 
but also much of it only just in flower May 30, 1909, some heads 
mature by June 6. 
Much of the Nantucket plant appeared to be somewhat aber- 
rant, and{specimens sent to Professor Fernald proved to be his 
var. altenuata (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 28: 245. 1898). My 
collections seem to show that this variety is more common of 
Nantucket than the typical plant. Professor Fernald writes me 
that it appears to be more conimon than the type in the Canadian 
zone. 
