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COMPOSITAE 



5. ANAPHALIS DC. Yama-haha-ko Zoku 



Grayish woolly or villous, often stoloniferous, dioecious or polygamodioecious perennial herbs; leaves alternate, entire, linear 

 to lanceolate, sometimes oblong, often decurrent; heads in dense or loose corymbs, rarely solitary, heterogamous or homogamous, 

 unisexual or sometimes the pistillate with a few staminate flowers in the center; involucres globose-campanulate, the bracts 

 5- to 8-seriate, imbricate, often whitish on upper half, brownish on lower half, the outer short, woolly on back; receptacle alveo- 

 late or pilose; pistillate florets marginal, fertile, the bisexual central, few, sterile; staminate corollas filiform, 2- to 4-toothed; 

 corollas of bisexual florets tubular, 5-toothed; style of the bisexual florets bifid; achenes oblong; pappus-bristles 1-seriate, slender, 

 scaberulous, deciduous. About 35 species, in temperate regions of the N. Hemisphere. 



lA. Leaves distinctly decurrent. 



2A. Involucres 5-7 mm. long, the bracts 5-seriate; cauline leaves 4-6 cm. long 1. A. sinica 



2B. Involucres 9-10 mm. long, the bracts 6- to 7-seriate; cauline leaves 6-10 cm. long 2. A. alpicola 



IB. Leaves not decurrent 3. yi. margaritacea 



1. Anaphalis sinica Hance. A. pterocaulon (Fr. & margaritacea (L.) R. Br.; Antennaria cinnamomea DC; Ana- 



Sav.) M-axim.; Gnaphalium pterocaulon Fr.hSa.v.; A. todaien- phalis margaritacea forma latifolia Kudo Hiro-ha-yama- 



sis Honda Yahazu-haha-ko. Stems 20-35 cm. long, haha-ko. Leaves 1.5-3 cm. wide. Hokkaido. ^North- 

 usually simple, densely grayish tomentose; cauline leaves ob- ern e. Asia and N. America. 



lanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, mucronate, Var. angustior (Miq.) Nakai. Antennaria cinnamomea 



sessile, decurrent on the winged stems, green and often viscid var. angustior Miq.; Anaphalis margaritacea subsp. angustior 



above, sparsely grayish tomentose while young above, densely (Miq.) Kitam. Yama-haha-ko. Rhizomes elongate; 



so and persistent beneath; inflorescence a globose corymb, 3-7 stems rather firm, 30-70 cm. long, grayish white woolly, many- 

 cm. across; involucres campanulate to globose, 5-7 mm. long; leaved; median and upper leaves thick, linear-lanceolate to 

 bracts 5-seriate, those of the pistillate snow-white on upper half, lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 6-9 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, 

 brownish and pubescent on lower half, the inner bracts acute. acuminate to obtuse, semiclasping, recurved on margin, 3- 



Aug.-Sept. Sunny places in mountains; Honshu (Kanto nerved, green and woolly above when young, long grayish to 



Distr. and wesrw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. brownish villous beneath; inflorescence a corymb; heads many; 



Var. viscosissima (Honda) Kitam. A. viscosissima Honda involucres globose, about 5 mm. long; bracts 6-seriate, the outer 



KuRiYAMA-HAHA-Ko. Hairs dense, glandular. Hon- ovate or oblong, brownish scarious, the median oblong, ob- 



shu (Kuriyama in Shimotsuke Prov.). tuse, white at tip, brown at base, the inner lanceolate. 



Var. morii (Nakai) Ohwi. A. sinica subsp. morii (Nakai) Aug.-Sept. Sunny slopes in mountains, rarely alpine; Hok- 



KitSiTn.; A. morii Nakai; A. ya\ushimensis Masam. Tanna- kaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rather common. 



YAHAZU-HAHA-KO. Stems tufted, densely leafy, 5-20 cm. China. 



long; cauline leaves thicker, 1.5-2 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide; Var. angustifolia (Fr. & Sav.) Hayata. Antennaria jap- 



heads fewer, sometimes solitary. High mountains in Kyu- onica Schultz-Bip.; Gnaphalium margaritaceum var. angusti- 



shu (Higo Prov. and Yakushima). Quelpaert Isl., Korea, folium Fr. & Sav.; Anaphalis japonica Maxim.; A. marga- 



and China. ritacea var. japonica (Maxim.) Makino; A. margaritacea subsp. 



2. Anaphalis alpicola Makino. A. apoiensis Nakai japonica (Schultz-Bip.) Kitam. Hosoba-no-yama-haha-ko. 



Takane-yahazu-haha-ko. Stems tufted, 10-20 cm. long. Median leaves linear, 3-6 cm. long, 3(2-6) mm. wide, green 



grayish tomentose; leaves of sterile innovation shoots oblanceo- and woolly above; involucres globose. Aug.-Oct. Moun- 



late, 6-10 cm. long, 1-1.8 cm. wide, acute, gradually narrowed tains; Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. 



at base, grayish woolly tomentose on both sides; radical leaves Var. yedoensis (Fr. & Sav.) Ohwi. A. margaritacea subsp. 



smaller, the median lanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, 9-12 mm. wide, yedoensis (Fr. & Sav.) Kitam.; Gnaphalium yedoense Fr. & 



acuminate to obtuse, sessile, decurrent; inflorescence a dense Sav.; A. yedoensis (Fr. & Sav.) Maxim. ^Kawara-haha-ko. 



corymb; involucres globose-campanulate, 9-10 mm. long; Stems branched in upper part, many-leaved; leaves linear, 3-6 



bracts 6- or 7-seriate, the outer short, broadly ovate, obtuse, cm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide, 1-nerved, green and woolly 



white, brown-red on lower half. Aug. Alpine slopes; above, densely woolly beneath; involucral bracts 3-seriate, 



Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.). yellowish brown on lower half, the outer very short. 



3. Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. var. Sunny places along rivers; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyu- 

 margaritacea. Gnaphalium margaritaceum L.; Antennaria shu; rather common. 



6. BLUMEA DC. Tsuru-haguma Zoku 



Annual or perennial herbs often woody at base, villous or woolly throughout; leaves alternate, sessile or petiolate, mucronate- 

 toothed to laciniate; inflorescence paniculate or in spikelike panicles; heads heterogamous; involucres campanulate-globose, the 

 bracts imbricate or reflexed, 4- or 5-seriate; corolla of pistillate florets filiform, minutely 2- or 3-toothed; perfect florets tubular, 

 5-toothed; anthers sagittate, tails connate, caudate-acuminate; style-branches narrow, compressed or filiform, papillose on back; 



achenes cylindric, hirsute, 5- to 10-ribbed; pappus-brisdes capillary, 1-seriate, often caducous, whitish or rubescent. More than 



100 species, in the Tropics of Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



1. Blumea conspicua Hayata. B. fruticosa Koidz. per part; lower cauline leaves chartaceous, many, large, obo- 



Tsuru-yabu-tabira-ko, O-kibana-mukashi-yomogi. Stems vate-oblong, 25-35 cm. long, 8-11 cm. wide, abrupdy acute, 



stout, 1-2 m. long, erect, striate, puberulent, branched in up- gradually narrowed at base, winged-petiolate, mucronate- 



