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lOO FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



i6. Aster Novi-Belgii 



Family, Composite. Color, blue, with bright-yellow disk. 

 Leaves, thick, rigid, or quite narrow, some of them clasping. 



Very common, and among our latest asters of the Atlantic bor- 

 der. It is under three feet tall. One variety, litbreiis, is very 

 low, stiff, almost prickly. A variety, laevigatus, has thinner and 

 smoother leaves. Upper leaves become small and like bracts. 



17. Aster tenuifolius 



Color, light purple. Leaves, scattered, long, pointed at both 

 ends, thick, almost fleshy. 6 to 24 inches high. 



An aster with crooked, bent stem, smooth, and not very leafy. 

 Low, with showy flowers, found in salt-marshes. 



18. Aster subulatus 



Color, purple. Leaves, narrow. 



A low plant, smooth, with very narrow and pointed leaves. 

 Rays short, and the flower in consequence insignificant. It grows, 

 like the last, in salt-marshes. 6 to 20 inches high. 



19. Salt-marsh Fleabane 



Pluchea camphorata. — Family, Composite. Color, pink. 

 Leaves, sessile, toothed, oblong and narrow, thick and rough. 

 Time, September. 



A common and pretty flower, found in salt-marshes. In man- 

 ner of flowering it resembles the everlastings. The small, rose- 

 colored blossoms grow in close, flat heads. They give forth a 

 distinct odor of camphor. Stems rough, hairy, and with small 

 glands. 2 to 5 feet high. 



20. Purplish Cudweed 



Gnaphalium purpureum. — Family, Composite. Color, white, 

 marked with purple. Leaves, woolly and whitish. 



One of the everlastings, and finding its purple color in the 



