COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite. 



A slender - stemmed and exceedingly 

 n^odioica* 1 woolly plant with very leafy basal shoots. 

 May-middle The basal leaves about 1 inch long, blunt 

 July at the tip but with an abrupt sharp point, 



one-ribbed or indistinctly three - ribbed ; stem - leaves 

 small and narrow. The flower-bracts with green or 

 tawny bases and dry tips, the outer ones short and ob- 

 tuse, the inner acutish or blunt. 6-16 inches high. On 

 wooded slopes and dr y shady places. Me. to Va. , and Wis. 

 Antennaria The commonest species of southern New 



neglecta England (also in Franconia, N. H., and 



April- Farmington, Me.). A small plant with 



early May slender stem and runners. The one-ribbed 

 basal leaves (at first silky -hairy above, but soon smooth) 

 wedge-shaped or blunt lance-shaped, and indistinctly 

 stalked ; the few stem-leaves linear. The head of the 

 pistillate plant § inch long, with linear bracts greenish, 

 brownish, or purplish below, and white at the tip. 8-12 

 inches high. Dry barren fields and sunny hillsides. N. 

 Eng., south to Wash., D. C, and west. 



A common species with small linear 

 Antennaria lance - shaped leaves; the clear green, 

 May-July smooth basal leaves, shaped like those of 



A. neodioica, a trifle hairy when very 

 young. The white flower-bracts with dry tips. 6-22 

 inches high. Hillsides and pastures. Northern N. Eng., 

 south to Mass., and west. (Vide Rhodora, vol. i., p. 150, 

 article by M. L. Fernald.) 



The most beautiful of the everlastings ; 



ear y ^ e linear leaves are sage green above and 



Everlasting . n , , , 



Anaphalis white beneath ; the flowers are globular, 



margaritacea with miniature petallike white scales sur- 

 White rounding the central yellow staminate 



J" y- flowers, arranged not unlike the petals of 



a water-lily. Cross-fertilized mostly by 

 moths and butterflies, though many other insects are 

 common visitors. Staminate and pistillate flowers grow 

 on separate plants. The stem is white and woolly, ter- 

 minated by a flat cluster, sometimes 6 inches broad, of 

 close-set flowers. 1-3 feet high. Common from Me., 

 south to S. Car., and west to S. Dak. 

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