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white-tomentose and permanently so beneath; the short 
pedicels of the heads, bracts of the involucre, and even the 
upper face of the young cauline leaves bearing minute color- 
less delicate gland-tipped hairs, with also some coarser longer 
brownish less distinctly glandular ones besetting the leaf- 
margins chiefly: mature foliage of the stolons usually 3 _ 
inches long including the petiole, and 13 inches broad in the 
middle of the variously round-ovate to obovate-spatulate 
strongly 3-nerved blade: female heads mostly 10 to 15, in an 
ultimately not very compact cymose corymb; tips of their in- 
volucral bracts from obovate-oblong to oblong-linear, obtuse, 
seldom even the innermost acutish: male heads 5 to 8, in a 
more dense cluster; milk-white tips of the involucral bracts 
very ample and showy, obovate or oblong-obovate, obtuse or 
nearly truncate, often marginate: pappus-bristles with some- 
what oblanceolate scarcely more than dentate dilated tips. 
Although this plant before all others of its genus would 
naturally take the name of plantaginifolia, or plantaginea, 
and is what I had in mind, as to all but the male specimens, 
for the A. plantaginifolia of page 173 of this volume, I am 
now unable to see how it can pass for the Gnaphalium plan- 
taginifolium of Linneus. Though the species is Virginian, 
and more than possibly the very one which suggested to 
pre-Linnzan students of Virginian botany the name plan- 
taginifolia (for the name, as far as published authorship goes, 
is of Plukenet), yet Plukenet’s figure, on which the identifi- 
cation of the Linnean species depends, was probably drawn 
from a specimen of my A. decipiens; and I expect the old 
herbaria, if they prove anything upon this point, to prove 
this, that the Plukenetian, and therefore the Linnean, plan- 
taginifolium is A. decipiens; at least one of the segregates of 
that species, now found by me to be an aggregate. 
' A renewed study of living plants has resulted in the dis- 
covery of a glandular indument similar to that which Mr. 
Fernald detected in his A. Parlinii; but the short gland- 
tipped hairs will hardly be seen in the dried specimen ; and 
