474 COMPOSITAE 
13. Gnaphalium collinum Labill. Creeping Cudweed. Fig. 5829. 
Gnaphalium collinum Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. 2: 44. pl. 189. 1806. 
Perennial, stems 6-30 cm. high, arising from a ies rhizome, this producing leafy stolens 
rooting abt the nodes. Basal 1 leaves acre t, 2.5-10 cm. long, oblanceolate, narrowed to a long, 
slender, petioliform base, thick in textu e, the margin revolute glabrous above, pannose-tomentose 
elow and rather silvery; u er cane Te asile, 1.5-2 cm. long, the internodes long; leaves sub- 
tending the terminal capitate clusters few, as the slannieawes but shorter; involucre cylindric, 
4 mm. high, woolly only at base, 20-30-flowered, the hermaphrodite flowers 2 or 3; phyllaries 
about 3-seriate, oblong, obtuse at apex and often e ose, tawny and often ein ad ki rose, hyaline 
and 4 nad achenes papillose, the pappus cohering in an easily fragmented r 
e of Australasia, locally abundant in Humboldt County, California. Type a: Wesnsainks. March- 
14. Gnaphalium japonicum Thunb. Japanese Cudweed. Fig. 5830. 
Gnaphalium japonicum Thunb. Fl. Japonica 311. 1784. 
nual, stems appressed-woolly, erect, 1-4 dm. high, simple or branched from the base, 
branchlets cw arising from the leafy axils. Leaves thick, pannose-tomentose beneath, green 
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1 or 2; phyllaries sp a us, "horalivce and fragile, ai or brownish or purplish feet the inner 
ig a linear, obtuse; achenes papillose, the pappus-bristles cohering in an easily fragmented 
uced weed in grassy open places in wooded areas = pr agen in Curry County, Ones gay 
cae Cant foes of California to Trinity Bigs Humboldt Counties; also reported from San Joaquin County 
anion of Japan widely distributed in the Orient and Australasia. Ju hd 
15. Gnaphalium tie es Fernald. Wandering Cudweed. Fig. 5831. 
re a . na Encycl. 2: 758. 1786. Not Burm. f. 1768. 
ald, es a 45: 479. pl. 495. 
ae al 2-4 dm. a the leafy stems simple or branching from the base. Leaves spatulate, 
atten ie e a petioliform base, 3.5-4.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, scarcely reduced above , thin, 
greenish, loosely woolly, more de nsely so on the undersurface ; . inflor ence an interrupted spike 
. : 
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ofc n se 1 olucres 3-4 mm. high 80-1 
phyllaries fragile, hyaline, faintly tinged with brownish yellow, the outer with een pe ‘id. 
section, couch oblong, acute at apex ; pappus-bristles deciduous i ina ee ng. 
A widespread subtropical weed of both ‘hemi spheres; occu in southeastern United States and — 
peradicaiie a ie Pacific States in cismontane souther nc pi incaia: for ued : doally in Mendocino County 
Type locality: Pineville, Louisiana. March— Ma rg 
16. Gnaphalium purptreum L. Purple Cudweed. Fig. 5832. 
Gnaphalium purpureum L. Sp. Pl. 854. 1753. 
Gnaphalium ustulatum Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. 2 404. 1841. 
Gnaphalium pannosum Gandoger, Bul Soc. Bot. Fr. 65: 42. 1918. Not Schultz-Bip. 1845 or A. Gray, 1883. 
1 or biennial 15-40 cm. high, erect or decumbent, 1- to several-stemmed, normally 
ea c 3 Vv vate 
oblanceolate, or spatulate aes uced above, usuall fet bier into a petioliform base, 
1.5-10 cm. long, 2-16 mm. wide, thickish, obtuse, apiculate, inconspicuously or not at all decurrent ; 
inflorescence a spici dace, more oF “a I = -bracted, scarcely interrupted panicle 1-18 cm. long, 
the heads et pom ‘4-5 m ‘ i 90-1 -flowered; ph with greenish base 
occose be i i i 
flowers about 88-121, hermaphrodite se oo purplish ; achenes minutely papillose, pappus 
united at base, decidous in ie complete 
Widespread native w: rowing in various secs Transition and Sonoran Zones; occurring in the Paci fic 
States from British Col hone south to southern California and adjacent Lower California mostly west of the 
Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada; common on the eastern sea’ aboard and in central United State and 
Caran 3 in South Ere sat also o Austr alia and New Zealand, where it is said to be introduced. Type locality: 
123. ANTENNARIA* Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 410. pl. 167. 1791. 
inly white-woolly, —— perennials. Leaves mostly entire, both the basal and 
caitine ekg the former more conspicuous, the latter usually reduced upward. Heads 
mostly several to vnsiicideieg "digcold: phyllaries scarious at least toward the tips, imbricate, 
* Text contributed by Carl William Sharsmith. 
