176 : PITTONIA. 
outline, the organ consisting of a short round-obovate blade 
and distinet narrow petiole; but its male and female plants 
are of the same size, as to height of stem, while the stami- 
nate plant in A. neglecta is so short as to seem as if it might 
belong to another species. ` 
A. PULCHERRIMA. A. Carpathica, var. pulcherrima, Hook. 
Fl. i. 329. [t seems to me that all the so-called A. car- 
pathica of North America must be admitted to the rank of 
a species, and under this name. I find no American speci- 
mens which do not present a strong contrast to those of the 
Old World bearing this name. The lower leaves in-our 
plant are relatively much larger, white-tomentose on both 
sides, permanently, and, notwithstanding their woolliness, 
are obviously 3-ribbed. "These points, together with tbe 
floral characters indicated by Hooker, and more fully by 
Gray, establish a species not, I believe, very closely analo- 
gous even to the Old World plant to which it has been so 
long referred. 
The Antennarias of the southern Atlantic United States 
are, I suspect, much in need of investigation; and one 0 
these I must here readmit to specific rank. 
A. MONOCEPHALA. Gnaphalium monocephalum, Carpenter, 
in Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 431. Antennaria plantaginifolia 
monocephala, Torr. & Gray, l. c.; Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 
xx. 254. This, when its vegetative characters receive due 
consideration, must needs be admitted to the rank of x 
species. Its leaves come nearest to those of true A. plantagi- 
nifolia, being broad, and displaying the 3 rib-like parallel 
nerves characteristic of that; but the leaf-outline is very 
different, being distinctly obovate, and the petiole very short. 
Then again the stolons are extremely unlike those of A. 
plantaginifolia, being very stout, long and prostrate, merely 
bracted, as in the very slender ones of A. neglecta, and leafy 
only at the end. -o 
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