STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
hail. Thus does Creative Love shield and clothe the flowers 
of the field; His tender care is over all His works. 
Searcely has our little Everlasting raised its soft cottony 
head above the short turf when another species appears, as 
if to rival its tiny brother, and known as the 
PLANTAIN-LEAVED EVERLASTING—Antennaria plantaginifolia 
(Hook.). 
This plant varies in height from six inches to eight or 
nine. The woolly stem is clothed with narrow leafy bracts; 
the root-leaves are large and broadly ovate, several-nerved, 
very white underneath, and less downy on the outer surface; 
the corymbed head of flowers shines with bright scales and 
silky pappus—the scales are not pure white, but with a 
slight tinge of brown. Later on in the month of July a 
tall slender form of this Everlasting may be seen, with 
larger root-leaves and loose heads of flowers on long foot- 
stalks; the flowers are slightly tinged with reddish-purple 
and silvery-gray, which gives a pearly or prismatic effect as 
the eye glances over a number of the plants moved by the 
summer wind. The flowery heads are conical, the unopened 
blossoms sharply pointed—the whole plant tall, slender and 
simple, and very downy.* 
The later plants of the Everlasting family differ from the 
above species. One commonly called 
NEGLECTED EVERLASTING—Gnaphalium polycephalum (Mx.), 
deserves our especial notice on account of the pleasant 
fragrance which pervades the gummy leaves as well as the 
shining straw-colored flowers; the scent is aromatic and 
slightly resinous. This plant is found in old pastures and 
* Antennaria neodioica, Greene. 
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