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COMPOS IT AE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



mm. broad 



b. Stem glandless; hasal leaves 1-nerved. 



8. A. neodioica Greene. Forming broad mats ; 

 stems slender, 0.5-4 dm. high ; basal leaves obo- 

 vate, 5-18 mm. broad; stem-leaves scattered, few 

 (5-10), rather small and inconspicuous, linear- 

 attenuate, 3 mm. or less wide ; corymbs ordinarily- 

 loose ; involucre 6-9 mm. high ; bracts with scari- 

 ous blunt or acute tips ; styles pale. — Open woods, 

 fields, etc., Nfd. to w. Ont., S. Dak., and Va. 

 May- July. Fig. 982. 



Var. grandis Fernald. Stouter throughout, 



greener; stems 3-5 dm. high ; stem-leaves oblance- 



olate or oblong-lanceolate, more conspicuous, 5-8 



bracts with white petaloid tips. — Woods and meadows, e. Me. to 



9S2. A. neodioica. 



Mass. and n. N. Y. 



* * Stolotis, when icell developed^ procumbent^ bracteate^ not leafy except at tip. 

 -*- Heads solitary ; basal leaves 1.5 cm. or more broad. 



9. A. solitaria Rydb. Stems 0.5-2 dm. high, very slender ; stolons flagelli- 

 form; basal leaves ohovate-spdtulate, 4.5-7 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. broad, tomen- 

 tose beneath, arachnoid, becoming giabrate above, 'S-nerved ; stem-leaves few, 

 small, appressed ; involucre 1 cm. high, its bracts linear-attenuate ; styles 

 crimson. — Rich wooded slopes, Pa. and O. to Ga. and La. Apr., May. 



■*- •<- Heads more than 1 {solitary in a rare variety of no. 10, ichich has leaves 



less than 1.5 cm. broad). 



++ Heads sessile or subsessile in capitate clusters or distinctly racemose ; styles 



crimson. 



10. A. neglecta Greene. Stems 0.3-4 dm. high, 

 slender, becoming much elongated in fruit ; stnJons 

 Jlagelliforra ; basal leaves from cuneate-spatulate 

 to spatulate-obovate, 4 (rarely 5) cm. or less long ; 

 stem-leaves few and scattered ; heads at first 

 crowded, later becoming racemose by the develop- 

 ment of the rhachis ; involucre 7-9 mm. high, fre- 

 (juently purple-tinged at base; bracts of pistillate 

 heads with linear whitish tips, of the staniinate 

 heads with broad white petaloid tips. — Fields, 

 plains, and open wood.s, N. B. to Va., w. to la. and 

 Kan. Apr., May. Fig. 983. Var. s/mplex Peck, 

 nated by solitary heads. — Sand Lake, N. Y. 



•w- -M. Heads in a comparatively loose corymb, never race- 



983. A. neglecta. 



Stems stifiSy erect, termi- 





mose ; styles pale, di-ying brownish. 



^Vv^i^^MfV^/)^, 11. A. petaloidea Fernald. Stouter t] 



^■'t: \ ' ' '''^^^^^ % 2—4.5 dm. high; stolons generally sh 



9S4. A. petaloidea. 



Stouter than no. 10 ; stems 

 orter and rather 

 stiffer ; basal leaves spatulate-obovate to oblanceolate ; 

 involucres of the pistillate heads brown or green at base, 

 their bracts with petaloid or scarious tips. — P'ields, dry 

 banks, and open woods, e. Que. to Ont., s. to n. and 

 w. N. E., N. Y., and Mich. May-July. Fig. 984. 



29. ANAPHALIS DC. Everlasting 



Characters of Antennaria, but the pappus in the sterile flowers not thickened 

 at the summit or scarcely S(j. and that of the fertile flowers not at all united at 

 base ; fertile heads usually with a few perfect but sterile flowers in the center. 

 (Said to be an ancient (ireek name of some similar plant.) 



1. A. margaritacea (L.) H. & H. (Pearly E.) Stem erect, 2-9 dm high, 



