454 COMPOSITAE. Vo. III. 
Low, diffuse; inflorescence mostly capitate; pappus-bristles distinct. 
Floccose-woolly ; involucral bracts yellowish, or white. 4. G. palustre. 
Appressed-woolly ; involucral bracts becoming dark brown. 5. G. uliginosum. 
Tufted low mountain herbs ; heads few; bracts brown ; pappus-bristles distinct. 6. G. supinum, 
2. Slender, simple; heads spicate; pappus-bristles united at base. 
Leaves linear or lanceolate-spatulate, acute; heads about 3” high; northeastern. 
Bracts dark brown; stem leaves lanceolate-spatulate. 7. G.norvegicum. 
Bracts brownish tipped; stem leaves linear. 8. G. sylvaticum. 
Leaves spatulate, obtuse or obtusish ; heads 2”-214” high; eastern and southern. 9. G. purpureum. 
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WIZ 1. Gnaphalium obtusifoélium L. Sweet or 
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White Balsam. Sweet or Fragrant Life 
Everlasting. Fig. 4406. 
Gnaphalium obtusifolium L. Sp. Pl. 851. 1753. 
G. polycephalum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 2: 127. 1803. 
Annual or winter-annual, fragrant; stem erect, 
simple? or branched above, tomentose, 1°-3° high. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sessile, 
acute or acutish, or the lower obtuse at the apex, 
narrowed at the base, densely white-woolly be- 
neath, glabrate and commonly dark green above, 
1-3’ long, 2”-4” wide, the margins undulate; heads 
in numerous corymbose or paniculate clusters of 
1-5, about 3” high; bracts of the involucre white, 
or tinged with brown, oblong, thin and scarious, 
obtuse, the outer woolly at the base; pappus-bris- 
tles distinct, separately deciduous; achenes glabrous. 
In dry, mostly open places, Nova Scotia to Florida, 
Manitoba, Kansas and Texas. Jamaica. Poverty-, 
chafe- or balsam-weed. Old-field balsam. Indian-posy. 
Feather-weed. Fussy-gussy. Rabbit-tobacco. Life-of- 
man. Moonshine. Leaves of rosettes oblong. Aug.—Sept. 
2. Gnaphalium Hélleri Britton. THeller’s 
Everlasting. Fig. 4407. 
G. Helleri Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 280. 1893. 
G. polycephalum Helleri Fernald, Rhodora 10: 94. 1908. 
Similar to the preceding species, corymbosely or 
somewhat paniculately branched above, 14°-2° high, 
the stem and branches densely glandular-pubescent, 
not tomentose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile, 
acuminate at both ends, green and hispidulous above, 
white-tomentose beneath, the larger about 2’ long 
and 5” wide, the uppermost much smaller and nar- 
rower; heads very numerous, corymbose or corym- 
bose-paniculate, sessile or short-peduncled in the 
clusters, about 23” broad; involucre oblong, or be- 
coming campanulate, 3” high, its bracts bright white, 
tomentose, the outer oblong, the inner linear-oblong, 
all obtuse; pappus-bristles distinct; achenes glabrous. 
In fields and woods, New York and New Jersey to 
Virginia, Kentucky and Georgia. Sept.—Oct. ; 
3. Gnaphalium decirrens Ives. Clammy Everlasting. 
Winged Cudweed. Fig. 4408. 
Gnaphalium decurrens Ives, Am. Journ. Sci. 1: 380. pl. 1. 1819. 
Annual or biennial, similar to the two preceding species, fra- 
grant; stem very leafy, glandular-viscid, corymbosely branched 
above, 2°-3° high. Leaves lanceolate or broadly linear, acutish 
at the apex, densely white-woolly beneath, glabrate or loosely 
woolly above, sessile and decurrent on the stem at the base, 
1-3’ long, 2-3” wide, or the lowest shorter and slightly spatu- 
late; heads in several or numerous corymbose glomerules of 
2-6, about 3” high; bracts of the involucre yellowish-white or 
brownish, ovate, acutish or the inner lanceolate and acute, the 
outer woolly at base; pappus-bristles distinct; achenes glabrous. 
In open, moist or dry places, Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania, West 
Virginia ?, Ontario, British Columbia, Michigan, south in the Rocky 
Mountains to Arizona. Sweet balsam. Balsam-weed. July—Sept. 
