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Fragrant Life-Everlasting

Gnaphalium polycephalum. Composite Family.

Stem.--Erect; one to three feet high; woolly. Leaves.--Lance-shaped. Flower-heads.--Yellowish-white; clustered at the summit of the branches, composed of many tubular flowers.

This is the "fragrant life-everlasting," as Thoreau calls it, of late summer. It abounds in rocky pastures and throughout the somewhat open woods.