38 (35) Large coarse plants, basal leaves 

 oblanceolate to spatulate-oblong, 1-4 

 dm long; stem leaves to lanceolate; 

 panicles of yellow flowers late in the 

 summer; plants of beaches, dunes 



and tidal marshes Solidago sempervirens, 



Seaside Goldenrod 



Figrure 41. — Stem with leaf 

 and basal leaf X Vj . 



38 (35) Smaller, more delicate plants; perennial; leaves narrow- 

 linear; branching subdichotomous; small pink flowers on 

 pedicels arising from axils of the upper leaves; plants of 



the tidal marsh Aster tenuifolius, 



Salt Marsh Aster 



Figure 42. — Stem and leaves XI 



Another species of the genus present in the area is an an- 

 nual; it has smaller (purple) flowers than A. tenuifoliiis. 

 A. subulatus 



39 (28) A coarse fern with tripinnate frond 

 from an underground creeping and fork- 

 ing rhizome; world wide, growing here 

 on older dunes and sea cliffs. . Pteridium aquilinum. 

 Bracken Fern 



Flgrure 43. — Portion of frond 

 with pinnule X %. 



39 (28) Plants not ferns. 



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