COMPOSITE FAMILY 



WHITE EUPATORIUM. WHITE 

 SNAKEROOT 



Eupatdrium ageratoides 



Native, perennial. A very beautiful late- 

 blooming White Eupatorlum, found at the edge 

 of woods or in any half-shaded place. Nova 

 Scotia to Georgia, west to Nebraska and Okla- 

 homa. August- November. 



Stem. — Smooth, branching, two to four feet high. 



Leaves. — Opposite, long-petioled, broadly ovate, 

 triple-nerved and veiny, coarsely and sharply toothed, 

 acute at apex, square or heart-shaped at base, three to 

 five inches long. 



Flower-heads. White, in corymbose clusters. All 

 florets tubular and perfect, from ten to twenty in a 

 head. Involucre bell-shaped. Pappus white. 



Three autumn blooming plants bear flowers 

 that for beauty and delicacy equal the rarest of 

 spring's darlings. Grass of Parnassus ranks 

 with Hepaticas, Bloodroots, and Spring Beau- 

 ties; Lady's Tresses in their rare patrician love- 

 liness are indeed ladies of high degree, and the 



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