COMPOSITE FAMILY 



long, three-fourths to an inch wide, growing smaller as 

 they ascend the stem. 



Flower-heads. — White, many, on leafy branches. 

 Heads one-half to three-fourths of an inch across. 

 Rays ten to fourteen, white. Disk-florets pale yellow 

 fading to brown. Involucre hemispherical; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, green-tipped, in four or five 

 rows. Pappus nearly white. 



The Tall White Aster not unfittingly in Sep- 

 tember takes the place on upland roadsides 

 which was so charmingly filled by the Tall 

 Meadow- Rue in July. The stem rises to five 

 feet and at the summit bears flattish clusters of 

 white stars. In time these clusters lose their 

 flat contour and become rounded or pointed, but 

 the branching habit of the plant is paniculate, 

 which means that the inflorescence is massed 

 at the top of the stem. 



WHITE ASTER. FAREWELL SUMMER. 

 TRADESCANT'S ASTER 



Aster Tradescdnti 



Native, perennial. An abundant White Aster 

 of autumn, blooming profusely along waysides 



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