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■ A. dioica, G^htn-. 1. c. Freely snrcnlose and forming broad mats : flowering stems 2 to 8 

 or even 12 inches high, beariiig few or numerous heads: radical leaves from obovate to 

 spatulate (half-inch tu nearly inch long), rarely glabrate above: bracts of the involucre in 

 both sexe-i with cohjred (white or rose-colored) and obtuse papery tips : akenes snjooth and 

 glaljrous or sometimes minutely glandular. (Polymorphous.) — Hook. 1. v.; Torr. & Gray, 

 1. I,. Giiuj:l(:ih'um (liotcum, L., &c. A hi/perborea, Don, Engl. Bot. t. 2G40, a. glabrate form. 

 ^1. parrlfolia, Xutt. 1. c. (A. rjinira, var. parcifoUa, Torr. & Gray, 1. c.) ; form with small and 

 very ^ihery leaves, ami involucral bracts rarely of yellowish tinge. — Jloist or dry gn.uiil, 

 Newfoundland and Labrador, and through the Kocky !Mcjuntain region (alpine, subalpine, 

 and lower along the streams), thence southward to New Mexico and S. California, and north- 

 westward trj Alaska. (Eu., Asia.) 



Var. COngesta, DC. 1. c. A form too little developed, with heads ses^ile in a rosulate 

 tuft of leaves terminating depressed stems, like the sterile creeping one^. occurs on sierra 

 Blanca, S. Colorailo, at 13,000 feet : and similar but more caulescent forms, from mountains 

 of S. I'tah, California, Wyoming, 6cc. 



' A. plantaginifolia. Hook. i.e. Freely surculose by long and .slender sparsely leafy 

 stolons, the ofi.sets biennial : flowering stems more scapiform, 6 to IS inches liigh, bearing 

 small linear or lanceolate leaves and a cluster of several heads : radical leaves from roundi.-h 

 ovate to obovate and si)atulate, the larger an inch or two long (besides the petiole), soon 

 glabrate and greeu above, silvery-canescent beneath with a completely jiannose "coating, 

 3-.5-uerved (but tlie nerves not rarely obsolete) : involucre very woolly at ba-^e : inner bracts 

 of the male heads with oval or oblong obtuse ivory-white tips, of the larger (4 to 6 lines 

 long) female heads with white or whitish narrow and acute tips : akenes minutely glandular. 

 — Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. c. 431. A. plantaginea, DC. 1. c. Gnaphalium plantarjinifolium, L. 

 G. plaiitaglneum, Murr. Sy.-t. 74S : Pursh, Fl. ii. 525, G. dioicum, var. plantayinijolium, 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 12S. — Dry hUls and sliaded grounds, Hudson's Bay to Florida, Texas, and 

 Xew Jle.-cico, and northwestward to British Columbia and Washington Territory. — Var. 

 monocephala, Torr. &, Gray, is an occasional form, with a single head; from Louisiana. On 

 the Blue Eidge in Mrginia, A. H. Curtiss collected the male of a remarkably small-headed 

 and small-leaved form. 



•i— -i— Heads loosely paniculate : involucre almost glabrous. 



A. racemosa, HoriK, 1. c, Stoloniferous in the manner of the preceding, lightly woolly, 

 becoming glabrate : flowering stems 6 to 20 inclie> high, slender, sparsely leafy, bearing few 

 or numerous racemosely or paniculately disposed heads, nearly all slender-pedunculate : leaves 

 thin ; the radical broadly oval, an inch or two long, obscurely 3-nerved at base, rather veiny ; 

 lower cauline oblong; upper small and lanceolate: involucre scarinu.-;, brownish ; the male 

 2 or 3 lines long, of obtuse bracts, the inner obscurely white-tipped ; female 3 or 4 lines L mg, 

 of narrow and mostly acute bracts: akenes glabrous. — Torr. & Gray, I.e. — Moist w-oods, 

 Rockv Mountains along the British border, south to Wyoming, and west to the Ca-cade 

 Moimtains, &c. ; fir.-t coll. by Drummond. 



60. ANAPHALIS. DC. Everl.^stixg. (Saiil by DC. to be an ancient 

 Greek name of some Gnaphalioid plant, and that it may be taken as an anagi-am 

 of the very similar genus GuaphoVann.) — Chiefly perennial herbs, all but our 

 species Asiatic: fl. late summer. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. SOo. AnapJialis & 

 Aiitennaria § Maryaripes, DC. Prodr. vi. 270. 271. 



"A. margaritacea, Bexth. & Hook. 1. c. Commonly a foot or two high, in tufts, very 

 leafv, the white flocco-e wool rarely becoming tawny: leaves (2 to 5 inches long) from 

 rather broadly to linear-lanceolate, soon glabrate and green above, the broader ones indistinctly 

 Siuerved : head,, numerous, corymbosely cymo>e : bracts of the involucre very numerous, 

 almost wholly pearly white, radiating in age. — Gnaphalium. margarituceum, L. ; Engl. Bot. t. 

 201S. G. Americaiunn. &c., Clusius, Hist, i, ,327, fig. 3. Antainirrhi margantana . R, Br. in 

 Linn. Trans,, &c. — Dry fields and open woods, Newfoundland to the Aleutian Islands, and 

 througli the northern "and cooler portions of the United States, extending south to the 

 higher mounts.ins in Colorado (a var. snbalpina, dwarf, broad-leaved, and with few gl.jinerate 

 heads), and the mountains of California. (N. E, Asia. Nat. in Eu.) 



