320 Carduaceae 



Silvery throughout, stems pros- 

 Antennaria . 



trate and leafy, forming broad 



Eaton) mats; flowering stems 6-15 



Greene. inches high. Leaves very thin 



Pink Ever- j n texture, densely hairy, lan- 

 ceolate to linear, ^-i^ inches 

 long, acute. Heads small, closely compacted 

 into a rounded terminal cluster, \ an inch or 

 more in diameter; involucral bracts in 2 

 series, lanceolate, the outer greenish and 

 woolly, the inner from pink to bright rose- 

 colour. 



In dry sterile or moist open ground through- 

 out the Rockies up to an elevation of 6,000 

 feet; flowering in June and July. 



A foot or two high in tufts, very 



leafy, the white tufts of woolly 

 subalpma 



(A. Gray) hairs rarely becoming tawny. 

 Rydb. Leaves 2-5 inches long, broadly 



Pearly^ lanceolate, green above, white - 



Everlasting. n i ,-. TT j 



woolly beneath. Heads numer- 

 ous, J of an inch high in a contracted corymb ; 

 involucral bracts numerous, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, pearly white, spreading in age. 



