BLUE WOOD ASTER 



This is a very handsome, small- flowered Aster, 

 so abundant that masses of pale violet-blue mist 



Leaf of Blue Wood Aster. Asler cordijdlius. 2 to 3 in. long 



seem resting from one to five feet above the 

 green of the earth in and about the open woods 

 and shady roadsides where it abides. Its flower- 



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