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glecta not so, the males being nearly as common as the 
females. Yet even here the male flowers are dead and gone, 
for the most part, before the pistils of the other plant are 
exposed. 
No critical inspection of the foundations of Gnaphalium 
plantaginifolium, Linn., can leave any doubt as to which of 
these species that author had in view, under that name; 
and there is no intimation that A. neglecta, common as it is 
all over the oldest parts of the botanical field of this country, 
was known to him. 
That several botanists, knowing these two plants famil- 
iarly, were obliged to indicate them as distinct appears from 
several old and almost forgotten editions of once popular 
manuals. But all these authors erred in supposing what is 
here described as new to be the Old World A. dioica! ` 
Two far-western allies of these species may here be char- 
acterized, both of which have been received by some botanists 
and distributed to various herbaria as “A. plantaginifolia.” 
A. HowzrLi. Tall, and with the large heads of A. plan- 
taginifolia, but with the slender prostrate stolons aud sub- 
coriaceous glabrate leaves of A. neglecta, but those last nar- 
rowly cuneate-obovate rather than spatulate, wholly glabrous - 
above, and not indistinetly feather-veined, with also a long 
lateral nerve near each margin, these and the pinnate vein- 
lets, as also even the midnerve, evanescent toward the apex 
of the leaf: white tips of the inner involucral bracts nar 
rowly lanceolate and very acute: achenes rather short, papil- 
lose-granular. | 
Mt. St. Helen, Oregon, 1887, Thomas Howell. A perfectly 
distinct species by the characters of its leaves and involucre, 
the bracts of which latter, in eastern plants, are obtuse. 
‘Barton, Comp. Fl. Philad. ii. 184. Darlington, Flora Cestrica, 495. 
Wood, Class Book, 10 ed. 351. 
