FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 267 
*ANTENNARIA NEGLECTA Greene. 
In damp fields and open places, rather scarce and found mainly 
on the western side of the island. In full flower May 31, 1909; 
mature heads June 7, 1908. 
*ANTENNARIA PETALOIDEA Fernald. | 
An extensive colony of this interesting plant overspreads many 
rods of a sterile hilltop field southwest of Capaum Pond, an 
extreme southern outpost of the species. On May 30, 1909, in 
fullest bloom, it was far more conspicuous in the whiteness of its 
inflorescence than any of our more familiar Antennarias, appearing 
like snow drifted along the hilltop with outlying patches down the 
slope. I had never before met with the species nor understood 
just how it differed from A. neglecta, but the eye needed no closer 
inquiry to approve it instantly as a beautifully distinct plant. 
Professor Fernald, who has kindly examined my specimens, wr ites 
me that they are typical of his var. subcorymbosa (Rhodora 16: 
133. 1914) not known hitherto from south of Mt. Desert, whence it 
extends locally along the coast to Prince Edward's Island and 
eastern Nova Scotia, there very common, and further eastward 
to Newfoundland. 
ANAPHALIS MARGARITACEA (L.) Benth. & Hook. 
Not an abundant plant, but widely scattered over the island. 
It is frequent in close patches among the mixed growths of herbs 
and low woody plants that like miniature thickets are scattered 
over the plains and rolling upland, and is common in more open 
colonies on parts of Great Neck. Corymbs white, but no open 
flowers, July 10, 1912; in full flower through August and Sep- 
tember. 
The close groups or patches, 
that are natural to its habit of growth in 
early in the season before the stems appear, 
color of, the basal leaves; by midsummer i . 
spicuous plant from the snowy whiteness of its flowering corym 
often far distant from each other, 
poor soils, are noticeable 
from the whitish green 
t has become a con- 
bs. 
GNAPHALIUM OBTUSIFOLIUM L. ee 
Common in dry soils, often in white sand among the beec 
grass. Plants very small up to late June; in full flower in August 
and September. 
