COMPOSITE FAMILY 



fruit of each is an akene with various attach- 

 ments. 



Among this group of "Sons of the Sun" 

 stands the slender three-leaved Coreopsis, Core- 

 opsis tripteris— which has wandered eastward as 



far as Pennsylvania and is 

 not uncommon in north- 

 ern Ohio. A true Core- 

 opsis, its flower-heads 

 differ very little from those 

 of the garden forms ex- 

 cept that the ray-florets 

 are oblong instead of 

 wedge-shaped, and the 

 disk-floret a purplish 

 brown. It stands in the 

 tangle five to six feet high, 

 spreading its flower-heads 

 above the press of its com- 

 panions into the light of 

 the sun, moreover, it pos- 

 sesses the fragrance of 

 anise. Still another spe- 



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Leaf of Sunflower Crownbeard 



Verbesina helanthoides. 



4 to 6 in. long 



