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COMPOSITAB (COMPOSITE FAMILY^ 



Stem glandless; lasal leaves 1-nened. 



8. A. neodiofca Greene. Forming broad mats , 

 stems slender, 0.5-4 dm. high; basal leaves oho- 

 vate, 5-18 mm. broad; stem-leaves scattered, few 

 (■5-10), ratlier small and inconspicuous, linear- 

 attenuate, 3 mm. or less wide ; corymbs ordinarily 

 loose ; involucre 6-1^ mm. high ; bracts with soari- 

 ous blunt or acute tips ; styles pale. — Open woods, 

 fields, etc., Nfd. to w. Ont., S. Dak., and Va. 

 May-July. Tig. 982. 



Var. grdndis Fernald. Stouter throughout, 



982 A neodloica greener ; Stems 3-5 dm. high ; stem-leaves oblance- 



olate or oblong-lanceolate, more conspicuous, 5-8 



mm. broad ; bracts with white petaloid tips. — Woods and meadows, e. Me. to 



Mass. and u. N. Y. 



* * Stolons, when well developed, procumbent, bracteate, not leafy except at tip. 

 -I- Heads solitary ; basal leaves 1.5 cm. or more broad. 

 i^Q. A. solitaria Rydb. Stems 0.5-2 dm. high, very slender ; stolons flagell i- 

 form; basal leaves obovate-spatulate, 4.5-7 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. broad, tomen- 

 tose beneath, arachnoid, becoming glabrate above, 3-nerved; stem-leaves few, 

 small, appressed ; involucre 1 cm. high, its bracts linear-attenuate ; styles 

 crimson. — Rich wooded slopes, Pa. and 0. to Ga. and La. Apr., May. 



t- *- Heads more than 1 (^solitary in a rare variety of no. 10, lehich has leaves 

 less than 1.5 cm. broad). 



'f Heads sessile or subsessile in capitate clusters or distinctly racemose ; styles 



crimson. 



10. A. negl6cta Greene. Stems 0.3^ dm. high, 

 slender, becoming much elongated in fruit ; stolons 

 flagelliform; basal leaves from cuneate-spatulate 

 io spatulate-obovate, 4 (rarely 5) cm. or less long ; 

 stem-leaves few and scattered ; heads at first 

 crowded, later becoming racemose by the develop- 

 ment of the rhachis ; involucre 7-9 mm. high, fre- 

 quently purple-tinged at base ; bracts of pi-stillate 

 heads witli linear whitish tips, of the staminate 

 lieads with broad wliite petaloid tips. — Fields, 

 plains, and open woods, N. B. to Va., w. to la. and 

 Kan. Apr., May. Fig. 983. Var. s(mplex Peck, 

 iiated by solitary heads. — Sand Lake, N. Y. 



•M- *+ Heads in a comparatively loose corymb, never race- 

 mose ; styles pale, drying brownish. 



11. A. petaloidea Fernald. Stouter than no. 10 ; stems 

 2-4.5 dm. high ; stolons generally shorter and rather 

 stiff er ; basal leaves spatulate-obovate to oWanceolate ; 

 involucres of the pistillate heads brown or green at base, 

 their bracts with petaloid or scarious tips. — Fields, dry 

 banks, and open woods, e. Que. to Ont., s. to n. and 

 w. N. E., N. Y., and Mich. May^uly. Fio. 984. 



983. A. Degleeta. 



Stems stiffly erect, termi- 



petuloideu. 



29. ANAPHALIS DC. Everlasting 



Characters of Antennaria, but the pappus in the sterile flowers not thickened 

 at the summit or scarcely so, and that of the ferlile flowers not at all united at 

 base ; fertile heads usually with a few perfect but sterile flowers in the center. 

 (Said to be an ancient Greek name of some similar plant.) 



1. A. margaritJlcea (L.) B. & H. (I'karlv E.) Stem erect, 2-9 dm high, 



