WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
for healing bruises. This Everlasting iscommon from 
July to September, in dry fields, hillsides, and recent 
clearings, from Alaska to Newfoundland, North Caro- 
lina, Kansas, and California, also in northern Asia. 
It was naturalized in this country from Europe. 
PLAINTAIN=LEAF, SPRING, EARLY, OR MOUSE- 
EAR EVERLASTING. WHITE PLANTAIN. 
PUSSY-TOES. LADIES’ TOBACCO 
Antennarta plantaginifolia. Thistle Family. 
Broad, white patches of this very common Everlast- 
ing carpet dry fields and hillside pastures almost every- 
where during the early spring. It seems to come out of 
the ground with the frost and is the earliest of its kind 
to appear. It spreads its leafy tufts by runners, and 
the leafy, woolly stalk sprawls along the ground. The 
flowering stems grow from six to eighteen inches in 
height. The basal leaves are paddle-shaped, or 
broadly oval, and sometimes smooth. They have short 
stems and are distinctly three-ribbed. They are dark 
green above and silvery beneath. The upper leaves are 
oblong or lance-shaped, and stemless and usually small 
and distant. ‘The numerous tubular flowers are set in 
their little pale green cups and are crowded into small 
terminal heads. They are of two kinds, pistillate and 
staminate, and occur on separate plants, often in 
distinct patches. The former appear like miniature 
inverted, silvery white tassels of silk, and the 
latter, on smaller plants, are more disc-like and 
creamy white with brownish, orange-tipped stamens. 
They are found from April to June in dry soil in 
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