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every one that it needs no descrip- 



Common Everlasting is so well known by 



Everlasting. 



Gnaphalmm 



polycephaium. tion here ; yet the 



little white flowers are so much like 



miniature pond lilies under the micro- 

 scope that the resemblance is amus- 

 ing, and the regularly formed little 



thing becomes beautiful ; but what 



appears to be tiny white petals are 



in reality a number of scales called 



the involucre, or flower envelop ; 



the central whitish or yellow part 



constitutes the flower head. An 



analysis of this under a rather 



powerful glass is quite interesting. 



The plant is conspicuous in every 



field by its cottony foliage, which is 



pale sage-green in color. Pearly 



everlasting {Anaphalis marga- 



ritaoea) has a broader flower 



cluster, is generally whiter, and 



grows in dry fields and near the 



woods. 



The bur-mari- 

 gold is a wretch- 

 ed weed with 



rather pretty conventional leafage, but unattractive 

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Bnr-Uarigold, or 

 Beggar-ticks. 



Everlasting. 



