WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 313 



Spicy or Salt-marsh Fleabane 



Phichea camphorata (Linnaeus) DeCandolle 



Plate 24gb 



An annual, branching herb with nearly smooth, or sometimes puberu- 

 lent, and somewhat grooved, stout stems, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves alter- 

 nate, ovate, serrate or denticulate, 3 to 8 inches long, i to 3 inches wide, 

 short petioled, the upper leaves almost or quite sessile. Heads of flowers 

 about one-fourth of an inch high, composed entirely of tubular flowers, 

 purplish or pinkish in color, the heads arranged in terminal corymbose 

 cymes, usually several or many on a plant. Involucres bell-shaped, com- 

 posed of several series of appressed, ovate-lanceolate pubescent bracts, 

 somewhat purplish in color. Outer flowers of each head with threadlike 

 corollas, three-cleft or toothed at the apex and pistillate; center flowers 

 with five-cleft corollas. 



In salt marshes along the coast from Massachusetts to Florida, Texas 

 and Mexico. Flowering from August to October. Flowers with a faint 

 odor of camphor. 



Pearly Everlasting; Moonshine 

 Anaphalis margaritacea (Linnaeus) Bentham & Hooker 



Plate 21 ib 



A white -tomentose or woolly perennial herb, the erect leafy stem corym- 

 bosely branched at the summit, i to 3 feet high. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 linear-lanceolate, sessile, revolute on the margins, green but pubescent 

 above and woolly beneath, 3 to 5 inches long. Heads of flowers numerous 

 in a compound corymb, 2 to 8 inches broad, each head one-fourth to one- 

 third of an inch broad when expanded; involucres campanulate, their bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, blunt, pearly white; flowers cream-colored becoming 

 yellowish; the staminate flowers with a slender or filiform corolla, an 

 undivided style and pappus bristles not thickened at the summit or scarcely 

 so; pistillate flowers with a tubular five-toothed corolla, two-cleft style and 

 a pappus of distinct capillary bristles which fall away separately. 



