398 COMPOSITE. Antennaria. 



1. Antennaria margaritacea, R. Br. Pearly Eve?-lasting. 



Stem erect, corymbose at the summit ; leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering to an acute point, 

 revolute on the margin, loosely woolly above, densely tomentose underneath ; scales of the 

 involucre white. — R. Br. I. c. ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 329 ; DC. prodr. 6. p. 270; Torr. 

 ^ Gr.jl. N. Am. 2. p. 429. Gnaphalium margaritaceum, Lin?i. sp. 2. p. 850 ; Michx.fl. 2. 

 p. 127 ; Engl. bat. t. 2018 ; Pursh,Ji. 2. p. 524 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 299 ; Beck, hot. p.\19; 

 Darlingt. Jl. Cest. p. 494. 



Stem 1-2 feet high, white and woolly, not stoloniferous at the base. Leaves numerous, 

 3-4 inches long and 2-3 lines wide, tapering at each end, green above, and clothed with a 

 loose down like cobweb. Heads numerous, about one-third of an inch in diameter, pedicel- 

 late, disposed in a spreading fastigiate corymb. Scales of the involucre of a pearly white 

 color, ovate, obtuse, finely striate. 



Dry fields and borders of woods ; common. August - September. The dry pearly heads 

 are ornamental and very lasting. 



2. Antennaria plantaginifolia, R. Br. Plantain-leaved Cudweed. 



Stem simple, with procumbent sterile shoots from the base ; radial leaves obovate-spatulate, 

 3-nerved ; the cauline lanceolate, appressed ; heads in a small crowded corymb ; scales of 

 the involucre with the tips usually eroded or crenulate, of the sterile plant broad and obtuse, 

 of the fertile narrow and mostly acute. — R. Br. I. c. ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 329 ; Torr. 

 ^ Gr.fl. N. Am. 2. p. 431. A. plantaginea, DC. prodr. 6. p. 270. Gnaphalium plantagini- 

 folium, Linn. sp. 2. p. 850 ; Pers. syn. 2. p. 420. G. plantagineum, Murr. ; Pursh, fl. 2. 

 p. 525 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 327 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 300 ; Beck, hot. p. 179. G. dioicum, var. 

 plantaginifolium, Michx. fl. 2. p. 128. G. dioicum, and var. plantaginifolium, Darlingt. fl. 

 Cest. p. 494. 



Root creeping. Stem 3-10 inches high, throwing off from its base procumbent and partly 

 assurgent shoots 2-6 inches long. Leaves silky-villous underneath, loosely woolly or at 

 length nearly smooth above ; the radical ones (particularly those that have remained through 

 the winter) often very large and broad. Heads few (6-10), pedicellate. Scales of the 

 involucre usually white, but sometimes pale purple. Pappus of the sterile flowers con- 

 spicuously denticulate. 



Woods and dry hill-sides ; common. April - May. 



