232 COMPOSITE. Antennaria. 



former narrower and rather acute: bristles of the male pappus moderately clavate. — PI. 

 Fendl. 107, & Bot. Calif, i. 340. Gnaiiludiiiin alienum, Hook. Loud. Jour. Bot. vi. 251. — 

 Hills, AVashington Terr, to N. California ; fiv.st coll. by (Jeyer. 

 ' A. microcepliala, Gray. Simple-stemmed, slender, silrery-wooUy : lower leaves spatu- 

 late ; uppermost small and linear : heads rather numerous, small, loosely paniculate : invo- 

 lucre nearly glabrous throughout, fuscous,- of the narrow female heads 3 lines long, of the 

 broader male heads 2 lines long, the somewhat colored (whitish or purplish) tips scarious 

 and inconspicuous: bristles of the male pappus with much dilated tips. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 74, & Bot. Calif. I.e. — Dry eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, in California and Nevada, 

 Stretch, Lemmon, &c. 



* * Not surculose-stoloniferous: stems simple from the subterranean branching caudex, rather 

 strict, leafy, naked at summit, and bearing a mostly compound-cymose cluster of broad heads: 

 inner bracts of the male involucre all with conspicuous ivory-white papery obtuse tips; those 

 of the female with hardly any tips and more scarious: herbage silverj-lanate : larger lower 

 leaves 3-nerved. 



-<A.. luzuloides, Tokk. & Gray. Cl(5sely silky-woolly : stems slender, a span to a foot high : 

 leaves all narrowly linear, or some of the lowest narrowly lanceolate-spatulate, small upper- 

 most linear-subulate : heads small (2 lines, or the female barely 3 lines long), several or 

 numerous: involucre glabrous nearly or quite to the base; the inner bracts in the female 

 heads obtuse : akenes glandular : the spatulate and as it were petaloid tips of the male pap- 

 pus obtuse. — Fl. ii. 430 ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c, excl. var. — Oregon, Washington Terr., and 

 borders of Brit. Columbia, east to AA'yoniing. 



' A. argentea, Benth. Larger, 8 to 16 inches high : lower leaves all spatulate (the larger 

 4 or 5 lines wide) : heads immerous in a more compound cyme, broader (fully 3 lines long) : 

 involucre in both sexes whiter than in the preceding species ; innermost bracts of the female 

 acutish : tips of male pappus even more dilated. — PL Hartw. 319. A. luzuloides, var. argeii- 

 tea, Gray in Pacif. R. Eep. iv. 54, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — California, in the .Sierra Nevada, from 

 Siskiyou Co. to the YoSemite district. 



, A. Carpathica, E. Be. Floccosely white-woolly, rather stout: loiver leaves spatulate- 

 lanceolate and the upper linear : heads broad, 3 or 4 lines long : involucre conspicuouslv 

 wooUy at base, more or less livid, except the white tips to the bracts of the male ; the inner 

 bracts of the female commonly acutish and thiu-scarious : akenes smooth and glabrous. 

 The typical plant 2 to 6 inches high, with a simple close cluster of 3 to 7 heads, or even a 

 solitary head : bristles of the male pappus gradually and moderately enlarged upward. — 

 Hook. Fl. i. 329 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 269 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 430; Eeiclienb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xvi. 

 t. 951. Gmiphaliiim Carpathicum, Wahl. Fl. Carp. 258, t. 3. — Labrador (a mouocephalous 

 form !) and Anticosti, and from the northern Rocky Mouutaius to mountains of Ctregon and 

 Washington Terr. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



Var. puloherrima, Hook. 1. c. Stems 6 to 18 inches high : leaves mostly larger, the 

 radical often half-inch or even almost an inch wide: heads more numerous, often iu a com- 

 pound cyme : bristles of the male pappus witli more strongly and abruptly or even scariously 

 dilated tips! — Rocky Mountains at lower elevations, exteuding to New Jlexico, Oregon, 

 and Brit. Columbia; first coll. by Drummoncl. Passes into the t)pical form as to stature, and 

 even as to pappus. 



* * Surculose-proliferous by either subterranean or humifuse and leafy shoots or stolons, in the 

 first species least so. 



-1- Heads in a cymose cluster, sometimes solitary: involucre woolly at base. 

 'A. alpina, G.«rtn. Somewhat cespitose: radical shoots few and short: flowerino- stems 1 

 to 4 inches high, bearing 2 to 5 heads, sometimes (var. monocephala, Torr. & Gray° a single 

 head: radical leaves spatulate, half-inch long: involucre 3 lines high, livid-brownish- the 

 mner of the male heads with whitish oldong tips, of the female wholh- livid and scarious 

 and from acutisli to acuminate: akenes glandular. — Less, in Linn. vi. ■>■>! ■ Hook 1 c ■ 

 DC^l. c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Fl. Dan. t. 27Sfi. A. momrrphah, DC. 1. c., depauperate' form! 

 A. Lahcmhu',,;,, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Sue. 1. ,-. JOG. anaplmlium dpi,,,,,,,, L. ; Eeicheub. 

 Ic. 11. ( rit. vni. t. 750. — Labrador and nortln^■ard to Bcliring Strait and Aleutian Islands, 

 and southl^■ard on the high mountains to Colorado aud to California l.cjoud the Yosemite. 

 (Greenland, Eu.) 



