. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. 5. Antennaria solitaria Rydb. Single-headed Cats-foot. Fig, 4397. Antennaria plantaginifolia monocephala T. & G. A. 2: 431. 1843. Antennaria monocephala Greene, Pittonia 3- 1 Not DC. 1836. Antennaria solitaria Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24: Stem slender, weak, floccose-woolly, 2-iolong, bearing a solitary head. Basal leaves obo-vate to oblong-obovate or br
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. 5. Antennaria solitaria Rydb. Single-headed Cats-foot. Fig, 4397. Antennaria plantaginifolia monocephala T. & G. A. 2: 431. 1843. Antennaria monocephala Greene, Pittonia 3- 1 Not DC. 1836. Antennaria solitaria Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24: Stem slender, weak, floccose-woolly, 2-iolong, bearing a solitary head. Basal leaves obo-vate to oblong-obovate or broadly spatulate, 3^long or less, 8-i6 wide, obtuse or apiculate,densely floccose beneath, loosely floccose, becom-ing glabrate above, 3-5-nerved; stem-leaveslinear, few and distant; stolons procumbent, leafyat the ends; involucre 4-6 high, its linearwhite-tipped bracts very woolly. Woodlands, Pennsylvania to Georgia, Ohio, Ala-bama and Louisiana. March-May. Genus 43. THISTLE FAMILY. 451. 6. Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richards. Plantain-leaf Everlasting. Fig. 4398. Gnaphalium plantaginifolium L. Sp. PI. 850. 1753. Antennaria plantaginifolia Richards. App. Frank. Journ. Ed. 2, 30. 1823. Floccose-woolly, stoloniferous, forming broadpatches; flowering stems of fertile plant 4-2ohigh, slender or stout, sometimes with glandu-lar hairs. Basal leaves obovate, spatulate, orbroadly oval, obtuse or acutish, distinctly 3-ribbed, petioled, dull dark green and arachnoidabove, silvery beneath, ii-2> long, 5-i8wide; stem-leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate,the upper usually small and distant; heads incorymbose or often subcapitate clusters, 4-5broad; involucre 3-43 high, its bracts green-ish-white, linear to lanceolate, acute or acutish;achenes minutely glandular; sterile plantsmaller, 3-8 high; basal leaves somewhatsmaller; heads smaller, 3-4 broad; bractsoblong, obtuse. In dry soil, especially in open woods, Quebec toFlorida, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas. Spring-or early
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