COMPOSITE FAMILY 
COMPOSITE 
THE great family of plants in which the flowers 
are closely crowded together into a flat head, as 
illustrated in the case of the familiar Sunflower, 
is called Composite. This includes a large pro- 
portion of the conspicuous wild flowers found 
throughout the season. While the most of these 
blossom during the summer and autumn months a 
few species are much in evidence through the 
“Spring and early summer. 
SPRING Evertastinc. The Spring or Plan- 
tain Everlasting has been blessed with quite a 
variety of common names. It is often called the 
Mouse-eared Everlasting and Early Everlasting, 
as well as White Plantain and Pussy Toes. In 
New England it is commonly called Indian To- 
bacco, while the botanists give Ladies’ Tobacco 
as one of its names. I think its genus, name— 
Antennaria—a pretty one and wish the plant 
might be generally so called. This name was 
given because of the fancy that the pappus of 
the stamen-bearing flowers resembles the feelers 
or antenne of insects. 
This Antennaria is a perennial, the basal ro- 
sette of the broadly oval leaves passing through 
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