COMPOSITE FAMILY. Compositas. 



A slender - stenimed and exceedingly 

 neodwica woollij 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 dry shady places. Me. to Va. , and Wis. 

 Antennaria ^'^® 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-shajied, 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 j^^^^ _ gj^aped leaves ; the clear green, 



Canadensis ii*,, i ii-i , » 



May-July smooth basal leaves, shaped like those or 



^4. iieodioica, a trifle hairy when very 



young. The white flower-bracts with dry tips. 6-23 



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



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



article by M. L. Fernald.) 



The most beautiful of the everlastings ; 



F^^^ ^ the linear leaves are sage green above and 



Anaphaiis white beneath ; the flowers are globular, 



marqaritacea with miniature petallike white scales sur- 



^hite rounding the central j'ellow staminate 



^" ^" flowers, arranged not unlike the petals of 



September ,., ^^ ,. -i. , , i 



a water-Ill}'. Cross-fertilized mostly by 



moths and butterflies, tliough many other insects are 

 common visitors. Staminate and pistillate flo^vers grow 

 on separate plants. The stem is wliite 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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