^0 FLORA OF THE UPPER SUSQUEHANNA. 



HELIOPSIS Pers. 



ti. helianthoides (L. ) B. S. P. Ox-eye. Common on the banks 

 of rivers and streams. A tall, coarse plant with the aspect of a 

 wild sunflower. Aug. {H. /ccvis Vev^.) 



H. scabra Dunal. Rorcui Ox-eve. Rare. Island in Chemung 

 river, Lucy. 



RUDBECKIA L. 



R. laciniata L. Tall Coxe-flower. Common in wet, usually- 

 shady grounds. Stem tall ; heads large ; rays about eight, yel- 

 low, spreading or drooping. Aug. 



R. hirta L. Coxe-flower. Yellow Dalsy. Browx-eved Su- 

 san. Bull's eve Daisy. Very common in fields, meadows and 

 pastures. Heads large; rays bright yellow; disk-flowers brown- 

 ish purple. The rays occasionally have brownish markings at 

 the base. Monstrous forms are not uncommon in which from 

 two to five heads are united. July. Aug. 



HELIANTHUS L. 



H. annuus L. Common Sunflower. The sunflower of the gar- 

 dens is commonly found as an escape about rubbish heaps, but 

 seldom attains the size of the cultivated plant and does not in- 

 crease in numbers. 



ti, divaricatus L, Wood Sunflower. Abundant i^ thickets, 

 along roadsides and the banks of streams. Leaves ovate-lance- 

 olate, sessile, opposite, thick, rough ; heads large, though small 

 for the genus; rays bright yellow. No scrubby hillside is too 

 dry for this plant. Our earliest species to bloom. July. Aug. 



H. strumosus L. Sunflower. Frequent along the Chemung 

 river and tributary streams, Lucy. vSusquehanna county; not 

 common, Grai/cs. Binghamton, Clute. Apalachin, Fenno. 



W. decapelalus L. Ten-kaved Si'nflower. River Sunflower. 

 C(;mmon along streams, but often found in dry ground. Stem 

 tall ; leaves rather large, ovate, contracted into margined peti- 

 oles. Rays about ten. 



H. tuberosus L. Jeri salem Arikiioke. Not uncommon in 

 waste places, dry or wet. 



