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Later, however, Professor Greene has reversed 1 his view of the 
question — hardly seven weeks since he modified his first decision ; 
and now he announces the same conclusion which w r as published 
by me in the Asa Gray bulletin. Though he agrees that the plant 
he described as A. decipiens is probably the plant figured by Pluke- 
net, and, therefore, Antennarici plantaginea R. Br., he does not 
recognize the specific identity of the smooth-leaved species which 
he had formerly called A. plant aginifolia and the plant I have 
described as A. parlinii. At any rate, he describes this smooth¬ 
leaved plant as a new species, A. arnoglossa, though he cites no 
type specimen or specimens; and his description hardly differs 
from that of A. parlinii except in the addition of a characterization 
of the staminate plant and the description of the bracts of the 
pistillate heads where he says, “ tips of their involucral bracts from 
obovate-oblong to oblong-linear, obtuse, seldom even the innermost 
acutish.” Plants sent me by Professor Greene early this spring as 
typical of what he then called A. plantagini folia , and which must 
now represent his A. arnoglossa, show the bracts of the pistillate 
heads to have white petaloid tips, the outer ones mostly obtuse. 
In A. parlinii the bracts have scarious acute tips. Beyond this 
difference I am unable to find any points by which to separate the 
plants, and I cannot think that the involucral characters are of 
sufficient constancy to justify our making specific distinctions upon 
them alone. It seems to me better in view of the variability of 
this involucral character to consider A. arnoglossa a southern 
variety of A. parlinii parallel with similarly distinguished forms 
of A. neodioica and A. canadensis. 
Doubtless much yet remains to be made out before we shall have 
a satisfactory knowledge of these very common and long overlooked 
roadside plants, but, for the present, the following descriptions and 
notes will furnish a synopsis of all the species known to us in New 
England, and, so far as possible, it states the range of each species 
within our territory. 
Synopsis of /Species. 
* Bcasal leaves and those at the tips of the assurgent stolons large, 5 to 12 cm. 
(in reduced specimens rarely 4 cm.) long. 
-i-Leaves dull, invested above with nearly persistent white pubescence, only 
the oldest basal ones sometimes glabrate : stems and stolons with no 
stipitate dark glands. 
1 Pittonia, vol. 3, p. 318. 
