VELLOW 



BLACK-EYED SUSAN. CONE-FLOWER. 



Rudbeckia hirta. Composite Family. 



Stem. — Stout and hairy; one to two feet high. Leaves. — Rough and 

 hairy ; the upper long, narrow, set close to the stem ; the lower broader, 

 with leaf-stalks. Flower-heads. — Composed of both ray and disk-flowers; 

 the former yellow, the latter brown and arranged on a cone-like receptacle. 



By the middle of July our dry meadows are merry with 

 black-eyed Susans, which are laughing from every corner and 

 keeping up a gay midsummer carnival in company with the yel- 

 low lilies and brilliant milk-weeds. They seem to revel in the 

 long days of blazing sunlight, and are veritable salamanders 

 among the flowers. Although now so common in our eastern 

 fields they were first brought to us with clover-seed from the 

 west, and are not altogether acceptable guests, as they bid fair 

 to add another anxiety to the already harassed life of the New 

 England farmer. 



Rudbeckia laciniata. Composite Family. 



Two to seven feet high. Stevi. — Smooth ; branching. Leaves. — The 

 lower divided into lobed leaflets ; the upper irregularly three to five-parted. 

 Flcnoer- heads. — Yellow ; rather large ; composed of both ray and disk-flow- 

 ers ; the former drooping and yellow ; the latter dull greenish and arranged 

 on a columnar receptacle. 



This graceful, showy flower is even more decorative than the 

 black-eyed Susan. Its drooping yellow rays are from one to 

 two inches long. It may be found throughout the summer in 

 the low thickets which border the swamps and meadows. 



AGRIMONY. 



Agrimonia Eupatoria. Rose Family. 



One to two feet high. Leaves. — Divided into several coarsely toothed 

 leaflets. Flaivers. — Small; yellow; in slender spiked racemes. Calyx. — 

 Five-cleft; beset with hooked teeth. Corolla. — Of five petals. Stamens. — 

 Five to fifteen. Pistils. — One to four. 



The slender yellow racemes of the agrimony skirt the woods 

 throughout the later summer. In former times the plant was 



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