GENUS 43. 



THISTLE FAMILY. 



451 



6. Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) 



Richards. Plantain-leaf Everlasting. 



Fig. 4398. 



Gnaphalium plantaginifolium L. Sp. PI. 850. 1753. 

 Antennaria plantaginifolia Richards. App. Frank. 



Journ. Ed. 2, 30. 1823. 



Floccose- woolly, stoloniferous, forming broad 

 patches ; flowering stems of fertile plant 4'-2o' 

 high, slender or stout, sometimes with glandu- 

 lar hairs. Basal leaves obovate, spatulate, or 

 broadly oval, obtuse or acutish, distinctly 3- 

 ribbed, petioled, dull dark green and arachnoid 

 above, silvery beneath, ii'~3' long, 5"-i8" 

 wide; stem-leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate, 

 the upper usually small and distant; heads in 

 corymbose or often subcapitate clusters, 4"-5" 

 broad ; involucre 3"-4^" high, its bracts green- 

 ish-white, linear to lanceolate, acute or acutish ; 

 achenes minutely glandular ; sterile plant 

 smaller, 3'-8' high ; basal leaves somewhat 

 smaller; heads smaller, 3"-4" broad; bracts 

 oblong, obtuse. 



In dry soil, especially in open woods, Quebec to 

 Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas. Spring- 

 or early everlasting. White plantain. Pussy-toes. 

 Ladies'-tobacco. Dog-toes. Four-toes. Love's-test. Indian- or woman's-tobacco. Poverty-weed. Pearly 

 mouse-ear everlasting. Consists of many races differing in size, leaf-form, leaf-size, size of heads 

 and shape of involucral bracts ; these have been variously regarded by authors as species and as 

 varieties. April-June. 



_**** 



7. Antennaria microphylla Rydb. Small-leaved 

 Cat's- foot. Fig. 4399. 



A. microphylla Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24: 303. 1897. 



?A. parvifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 7 : 406. 1841. 



Stem slender, 8'-i2' high; stolons short, not over 2i' 

 long. Basal leaves and those of the ends of the stolons 

 spatulate, obtuse, or apiculate, 2"-8" long, i"-2" wide, 

 narrowed from above the middle ; stem-leaves linear- 

 oblong, or the leaves linear-spatulate, often longer than 

 the basal ones ; heads corymbose, rather numerous ; 

 involucre 2.\"-^\" high ; bracts of the fertile heads 

 linear-oblong, acute or acutish, those of the sterile ob- 

 tuse. 



Dry plains and hills, Saskatchewan to Nebraska, British 

 Columbia and New Mexico. July-Aug. 



8. Antennaria neodioica Greene. Smaller 

 Cat's- foot. Fig. 4400. 



Antennaria neodioica Greene, Pittonia 3: 184. 1897. 

 A. alsinoides Greene, Pittonia 4: 83. 1899. 

 A. rupicola Fernald, Rhodora i: 74. 1899. 



Floccose-woolly, with numerous stolons which 

 are leafy throughout; stem of fertile plants slen- 

 der, about i high. Basal leaves about i' long, 

 3 "-S" wide, broadly obovate to spatulate, i -nerved, 

 or indistinctly 3-nerved, white-tomentose beneath, 

 becoming glabrate above, usually narrowed into 

 distinct petioles ; stem-leaves linear, acute ; heads 

 loosely t corymbose, 3" -4" broad ; outermost bracts 

 of the involucre obtuse, the rest lanceolate, acute, 

 or acuminate, all greenish or brownish below, 

 with white scarious tips; achenes obtusely 4-an- 

 gled, granular-papillose; sterile plant lower, 3'-8' 

 high ; heads more densely clustered, the bracts of 

 the involucre oblong, obtuse. 



In dry places, Newfoundland to Virginia, Quebec, Michigan and South Dakota. 



April-July. 



