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64 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



white. Leaves, many, near the root, smooth, and partly fleshy, 

 rather broad; those above, narrow, bract-like. 



Tall and coarse, not a shrub, but shrubby. It may reach 8 

 feet. The flowers grow in the axils of the upper leaves, and in a 

 raceme at the end of the branch or stem. They hang and nod. 

 The leaves have coarse, sharp teeth. 



[r ' 58. Tall Sunflower 



Helidnthus giganteus. — Fai>ii/y, Composite. Color, pale 

 yellow, both rays and disk. Leaves, lance-shaped, large, rough 

 above and beneath, lltne, August, September. 



Very tall, reaching 10 feet. A rough stem, and the narrow 

 leaves hairy near the base. The rays are numerous and long, of 

 a lemon color. A pretty sunflower, growing in swampy thickets 

 and beside streams. 



59. Coreopsis. Tickseed 



Coreopsis rosea. — Family, Composite. Color, of rays, rose- 

 color; of disk, yellow. Leaves, long, narrow, not toothed, oppo- 

 site. Time, August. 



A rare find in sandy swamps is the rose-colored coreopsis. 

 The rays are 3-toothed, about 8 in number. The heads are 

 small, on leafy stems, from ^ foot to 2 feet high. 



60. Tickseed Sunflower 



C tricJiospenna has 3 to 7 divided leaves with short petioles, 

 coarsely -toothed leaflets, and flowers with short, inconspicu- 

 ous rays. This approaches bur-marigold. 



The i^olden coreopsis of old-fashioned gardens has yellow, 

 toothed rays, with dark red around the central disk. Lca^>es 

 narrow, on thin petioles. Other varieties are more double, 

 with variable spots or markings. They are imported from Texas 

 and Arkansas, and are especially fine in the South and West. 



