DENSE -FLOWERED ASTER 



Flower -heads. — Small, white, very crowded on the 

 stem. Centres at first pale yellow but soon become 

 reddish purple. Heads half an inch across or smaller, 

 densely crowded, nearly sessile. Rays ten to twenty, 

 white, inclined to curve backward. Involucre bell- 

 shaped; bracts coriaceous, green-tipped, inclined to 

 spread; pappus brownish white. 



This Wreath Aster Is very well named, for it 

 branches with long, simple stems, often curving 

 out of the tangle, bearing one to three feet of 

 Asters, just Asters, for so small and so crowded 

 are these tiny stars that neither stem that holds 

 them nor leafy bracts that support them are 

 much in evidence. There are just so many 

 feet or Inches of crowded florets. The little 

 things are about half an Inch across, usually 

 white, sometimes flushed with lilac, but with dark 

 purplish centres, and crowded, always crowded. 

 The rays have a tendency to turn back, which 

 makes the flower seem even smaller than It Is, 

 and throws the purplish centres Into prominence. 

 The long simple stems curve and reach over 

 their lower companions, and so get light and 

 space. The plant dwells of choice in half shade, 



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