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COMPOSITAE 
8. ANAPHALIS DC. Everlasting 
Perennial herbs with simple erect leafy stems. Leaves green above, 
woolly beneath. Heads in a compound corymb. Involucral bracts dull 
white, scarious, imbricated in several series. Flowers yellow, dioecious. 
(Ancient Greek name of some “Everlasting.”) 
1. A. margaritacea (L.) B. & H. Pearly Everlasting. Stems sev¬ 
eral from the base, 3 to 5.7 dm. high; herbage woolly; leaves lanceolate, 
sessile, with revolute margin.—Open woods. 
9. GNAPHALIUM L. Cudweed 
Woolly herbs with entire sessile or decurrent leaves. Heads discoid, 
white, yellowish, or rose-tinted, in panicles, corymbs or spikes. Involu¬ 
cral bracts imbricated, scarious. Pappus a single series of capillary 
bristles. (Greek gnaphalon, a lock of wool, these plants floccose-woolly.) 
Pappus-bristles united at base, falling together; inflorescence spike-like..... 
1. G. pupureum. 
Pappus-bristles not united at base, falling separately; inflorescence corymbose, 
paniculate or cymose. 
Involucre imbedded in loose wool; bracts rather inconspicuous. ... 2 . G. palustre. 
Involucre woolly only at base ; bracts conspicuous. 
Herbage in age becoming green, more or less glandular. 
Inflorescence corymbose ; bracts shining white.3. G. decurrens. 
Inflorescence paniculate or cymose; bracts white or rose-tinged. 
4. G. ramosissimum. 
Herbage persistently woolly, not glandular or scarcely so. 
5. G. microcephalum. 
1. G. purpureum L. Purple Cudweed. Stems simple, erect from 
a slightly decumbent base, 9.6 to 29 cm. high; herbage canescent, upper 
surface of leaves early glabrate; leaves broadly spatulate, 2.4 to 4.8 cm. 
long; involucre brownish or purplish.—Open ground. 
2. G. palustre Nutt. Lowland Cltdweed. Stems erect or ascend¬ 
ing, 7 to 19 cm. high; wool loosely floccose deciduous from the leaves; 
leaves mostly spatulate, 1.2 to 2.4 cm. long; involucral bracts imbedded 
in loose wool.—Stream beds and lowlands. 
3. G. decurrens Ives var. californicum Gray. California Ever¬ 
lasting. Stems stoutish, 5 to 9 dm. high, corymbosely branched at sum¬ 
mit; herbage soon becoming green, at maturity balsamic-scented; leaves 
oblong to lanceolate, decurrent; involucral bracts shining white.—Dry 
wooded hills of the Coast Ranges. 
4. G. ramosissimum Nutt. Pink Everlasting. Stems 1 to several 
from the base, 6 to 14 dm. high, ending in a much-branched panicle; 
herbage glandular and sweet-scented; heads reddish or pinkish.—Wooded 
hills near the coast; Sierra Nevada. 
5. G. microcephalum Nutt. White Everlasting. Stems 4 to 7 dm. 
high, branching above into a panicle; herbage bright white-woolly; 
leaves linear; panicles often 2.8 dm. long; involucral bracts white. — 
Wooded mountain slopes. 
10. WYETHIA Nutt. 
Perennial herbs with a basal tuft of leaves and simple stems with few 
and smaller leaves and one or few large heads. Involucre hemispheri¬ 
cal, its bracts in 2 or 3 unlike series, the outer large, the inner small. Ray 
and disk-flowers yellow. Pappus a crown of unequal scales or with rigid 
