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are likely to obtain recognition as distinct species. I must 
therefore without delay designate, and more definitely char- 
acterize, what I intend as the type of 
A.DECIPIENS. Flowering stems of female plant mostly 8 
to 10 inches high, not notably leafy except near the base: 
mature leaves of the stolons relatively broader than in A. 
arnoglossa, not rarely almost truncate or subcordate at base, 
and with more distinct and slender petiole: heads smaller 
by about one-third, rather more numerous and on longer 
pedicels, forming a compound corymb; bracts of female 
involucre more numerous, their white tips narrower and 
more elongated, scarcely even the almost linear inner ones 
acute: styles and corollas in the female plant deep rose- 
purple, as also sometimes the corollas of the male: male 
plant about half the height of the female, its heads either 
(in small plants) few and subsessile, or (in well developed 
plants) with a terminal cluster exceeded by several lateral 
and elongated branches bearing about 3 sessile heads at the 
end. 
Almost exclusively a dry-woodland plant, common about 
Washington and in Virginia and Maryland, naturally and 
easily distinguished from its associate species of this region 
by its small corymbose pinkish heads, and extremely broad 
though always smaller leaves. These latter, being some- 
times even subcordate at base, place it almost beyond doubt 
that it is just this species which Gronovius described as 
“Elichryso affinis foliis tussilaginis sed minoribus," etc., 
which Linnzus, in the second edition of the Species Planta- 
rum, identifies with his G. plantaginifolium. There is, in- 
deed, no other Antennaria any of whose leaves can be said to 
resemble small leaves of Tussilago. 
A. FALLAX. A. decipiens in part, of page 278 preceding. 
Plant of the size of A. arnoglossa, with almost the same num- 
ber of equally large heads in the cluster, differing from that 
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