COMPOSITE FAMILY 



Involucre with broad bracts, the rounded tip having 

 an inconspicuous green spot. 



The White Wood Aster comes into bloom in 

 certain elect places the middle of August. It 

 retreats a few feet from the edge of the wood- 

 land but seldom beyond the zone of abundant 

 sunlight, and sometimes it breaks out in dry, 

 sunny places. 



The lower leaves are heart-shaped, sharply 

 toothed, long-pointed with a grooved petiole. 

 The flower-heads are ragged, the few rays 

 pointing hither and yon, and the entire effect 

 dishevelled and unkempt. 



TALL WHITE ASTER. PANICLED ASTER 



Aster paniculdtus 



Native, perennial. One of the tall, showy 

 White Asters, following upland roads in mid- 

 summer, reported as preferring moist locations 

 but really growing anywhere when provided 

 with a cool root-run. New Brunswick to west- 

 ern Ontario, south to New Jersey, Kentucky, 



and Kansas. 



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