COMPOSITE FAMILY 



one-fourth inch across, are red, reddish yellow, or 

 orange, quite a different color from those of Canadensis, 

 but are so few in bloom at any one time as not to 

 make much of a show. 



DAISY FLEABANE. SUMMER FLEABANE 



Erigeron dnnuus 



An ancient Greek name. 



An annual plant bearing small Aster-like flowers, 

 borne in loose, flat panicles at the top of a stem two to 

 three feet high. Found almost everywhere, sometimes 

 abundant in fields, scattered along roadsides, and often 

 in the leafy tangle along the edge of woodlands. Nova 

 Scotia to the Northwest Territory, south to the Gulf. 

 May-November. 



Stem. — Two to three feet high, slender, hollow, hairy, 

 and leafy. 



Leaves. — Alternate, lanceolate, tapering toward the 

 point and narrowing into a petiole at the base. Thin 

 in texture, velvety beneath, midrib prominent, margin 

 coarsely notched into sharp teeth. They graduate in 

 size from the foot of the stalk, becoming very small and 

 narrow as they ascend, the margins entire, and the leaf 

 sessile. 



Flower-heads. — Radiate-composite, borne in a flattish, 

 loose panicle, each head about three-fourths of an inch 

 across. Ray-florets white or pinkish, very narrow and 

 numerous, from forty to eighty making a fringe around 

 the yellow centre. Disk-florets are very small and very 

 many. Involucre of many minute bracts. Receptacle 

 flat. Pappus double, the inner a series of slender, fragile 

 bristles, often wanting in the ray-florets; the outer a 

 series of short, partly united, slender scales. 



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