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Stout, coarse plants, 4 to 5 feet high, with large flowers possess- 

 ing long and narrow yellow rays and heavy yellow disks. Root 

 thick and mucilaginous, used in veterinary practice ; growing 

 often in clumps, like sunflowers, near barn-yards, or in old fields, 

 along lanes and roadsides. Imported from Europe. 



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Lepachyspinnata. — i^rt';«//y, Composite. Co/or, yeWow ; disk, 

 gray. Leaves, alternate, low down on the stem, pinnate, with 

 3 to 7 lance-shaped leaflets. Time, July. 



Rays, few, drooping, 2 inches long. Single heads, large, 

 showy. Stem and branches grooved. Plant, 4 feet high, cov- 

 ered with small, whitish hairs. 



Western New York, southward and westward. 



50. Beggar-ticks. Stick-tight 



Bldens frondbsa (2-Xooi\\e.d) .—Family, Composite. Color, 

 yellowish green. Leaves, with petioles, divided into 3 or 4 

 leaflets, which are short-stalked, coarsely-toothed, lance-shaped, 

 pointed. Tijiie, late summer and fall. 



One may make the acquaintance of the fruit of this plant after 

 a walk in the woods in the fall. The seeds are achenes armed 

 with "barbed awns," which turn backward, catching in the cloth- 

 ing. There is no beauty in the plant, which is coarse, hairy, 2 to 

 6 feet tall ; its flowers are rayless, with a hairy involucre, which 

 projects beyond the disk. 



51. Spanish Needles 



B. bipinnata has leaves i to 3 pinnately-divided, with ovate 

 or narrow leaflets wedge-shaped at base. 



Flowers with short yellow rays and dull yellow disks. Of the 

 involucre, the outer row of scales equals the rays in length. 

 Achenes, nearly smooth themselves, possess 3 to 4 awns, by 

 ' means of which they are disseminated. 



