148 I,EAFI,ETS. 



ing the winter, those of the season apparently full grown at 

 flowering time, about M to 1^ inches long including the 

 narrow and well defined petiole, the blades nearly orbicular, 

 /^ to 5^ inch in diameter, the length scarcely greater than the 

 width, all very obtuse, thin, beneath obviously 3- veined under 

 the dense indument, the upper face very closely but finely 

 arachnoid-tomentose, the coat never completely deciduous : 

 flowering stems very slender, but rather notably bracted with 

 oblong and oblong-linear spreading bracts, the fertile 10 inches 

 high and subcorymbose, the heads 8 or 10 ; scales numerous 

 but too nearly equal to appear well imbricated, not woolly 

 at base, greenish almost throughout, the obtuse scarious tips 

 both short and of too greenish-white a hue to be at all con- 

 spicuous ; flowering stems of male plants barely 3 inches high, 

 their few heads subsessile, their scales with also greenish white 

 and obscure tips ; bristles of their pappus with little dilated 

 and only indistinctly serrated acute tips. 



Pine woods near Portsmouth, southern Virginia, 27 April, 

 1898, collected by Mr. Thos. H. Kearney; type in U. S. 

 Herb., sheet 355635. A very well marked member of the 

 group of species which make very little show of scarious tips 

 to the involucral scales. 



Antennaria dii<atata. Plant large but of low stature, 

 the flowering stems 3 to 6 inches high, the sterile equalling 

 the fertile : basal leaves of the former season copious, surviv- 

 ing the winter in perfect condition, very large for the plant, 

 all long-petioled, the blades suborbicular, 1 to iK inches 

 wide, the length the same, or rarely a mere trifle greater, 

 the lower face permanently close-tomentose, the upper after 

 maturity sometimes almost perfectly glabrate, more commonly 

 whitish-spotted with small knots of the not further deciduous 

 loose tomentum : heads in the fertile plant only 3 to 5, closely 

 glomerate and appearing sessile ; involucres smallish, broadly 

 turbinate, the scales well imbricated, all with short but wide 

 and rather blunt white tips : involucres in sterile plant twice 

 as numerous, 7 to 11, also not sessile, the tips of their scales 



