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"Ingenious" September Flowers. a perfect flower, with corolla, stamens 



BY HERBERT W. FAULKNER, WASHINGTON, ^nd pistil. 



CONNECTICUT. Qur sketch of the black-eyed Susan 



Septeml>er brings countless members show^s this flower in section with the 

 of the great family of the Compositae, 

 such as daisies, thistles, elecampane 



THE BELLFLOWER. 



THREE FLORETS FROM A THISTLE. 



numerous little florets packed close 

 into a head, and one floret, greatly en- 

 supposed to resemble a star, but it con- larged. 



sists of a vast constellation of stars, The stamens are united into a tube, 

 enough to form a "Milky Way," each and shed their pollen inward ; then the 



