SEASIDE GOLDENROD 



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two feet high, and the dense mass of golden 

 plumes, waving in the wind with one accord, 

 makes a veritable field of gold. 



These golden plumes often give very curious 

 effects. A traveller on a road, with banks a 

 few feet high bordered with bushes, often finds 

 the tiny plumes bowing to him from each side 

 as if in courteous welcome. In an area of ex- 

 tent, as sunlight and shadow succeed one an- 

 other, there seem to be ripples of yellow flowing 

 over the field; and most interesting of all is a 

 group of a dozen or more stems, no two bowing 

 in the same direction, as if in family feud. There 

 is no end to the pathetic fallacies one may sum- 

 mon concerning these little plants. 



SEASIDE GOLDENROD 



Soliddgo sempervirens 



Native, perennial. A very brilliant Golden- 

 rod of salt marshes, sea beaches, borders of 

 tidal rivers, and in sandy soil near the sea. 

 New Brunswick to Florida. August-December. 



Stem. — Stout, leafy, usually simple, two to five feet 

 high, smooth, sometimes slightly pubescent. 



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