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the leaves more numerous at the ends but even these upright 

 and not forming a rosette, the longest stolons hardly 3 inches 

 long, slender, depressed, but firm : leaves of uncommonly 

 thin texture, oblanceolate, acute, % to X^z inches long, 

 greatly narrowed toward the base, equally somewhat hoary on 

 both faces with a thin cottony rather than woolly indument 

 everywhere permanent, flowering stems of pistillate plants 

 4 to 8 inches high, slender, leafy with suberect leaves less 

 than an inch long, linear, acuminate : heads compactly sub- 

 corymbose ; involucres of middle size, white-woolly as to the 

 short herbaceous part of the bracts, but showing a very dark 

 spot just at base of the long obtuse white tips, these in few 

 series and little imbricated. 



Collected at Marlette Lake, Washoe Co., Nevada, 10 July, 

 1902, by C. F. Baker, and distributed by him under the above 

 name, and his n. 1296. Species seeming intermediate between 

 my A. media and A. parvifolia. 



Antennaria pyramidata. Stems tufted on a short stout 

 ligneous caudex and 5 to 7 inches high, very notably leafy, 

 the lowest cauline leaves crowded and as large as the basal, 

 diminishing only very gradually toward the inflorescence, 

 these and the stem densely white-tomentose with a very close 

 coat, oblanceolate, cuspidately acute, of firm texture : inflor- 

 escence not peduncled, forming a pyramidal thyrsus rather 

 than corymb or panicle ; heads small, those of the pistillate 

 plant subturbinate, of the staminate campanulate, the bracts 

 of both numerous, much imbricated, all obtuse, or the inner 

 series in the pistillate abruptly acutish, none woolly at base ; 

 bristles of pappus in male plant filiform to near the summit, 

 then abruptly dilated. 



Collected somewhere in the mountains of California, at 

 5000 feet, 18 June, 1897, by Marcus E. Jones, and distributed 

 for A. argentea ; but the plant is (l) of less than half the 

 size of that species, (2) arises tuftedly from a caudex that is 

 woody, (3) is strongly leafy with a firm white (not silvery) 

 foliage (4) of another outline, and (5) its infloresence is 



