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430 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AXD SWAMP 



leaf}'. The leaves, thick and somewhat broad below, grow 

 upward on the stem into mere bracts. The heads of yellow 

 flowers are small, crowded, spiked, or racemed. 



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S. pilosa is a tall species, 3 to 7 feet, with the same range as 

 the last. The stem is stout and hair\'. Leaves rough, lance- 

 shaped, sessile. Heads of flowers in a dense, pyramid-shaped, 

 recurved panicle. Rays few and short. 



41. Golden Aster 



Chrysopsis falcata.—Fomi/v, Composite. Color, golden 

 yellow. Leaves, stiff, entire, narrow, long, sessile, crowded ir- 

 regularly on the stem, hairy, smooth when old, often curved 

 and scythe-shaped. Time, August and September. 



Corollas, tubular. Rays, present. Both rays and disk a 

 showy, golden color. Fhnoers, large, resembling asters. The 

 plant is often delicate in stem and leaves, and again rough, 

 woolly, thickened, and misshapen, 8 or 10 inches high. 



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Frequently found growing with the above is C. Mariana, 

 a smoothly silky plant, with broader, o]-)long leaves and heads 

 in flattish clusters on glandular peduncles. 



These are handsome flowers, adorning many sterile spots with 

 beauty from Massachusetts and Long Island southward to Penn- 

 sylvania, not far from the coast. 



43. Showy Aster 



Asier spectabilis. — Familw Composite. Color, bright pur- 

 ple. LciiTcs, ovate, pointed, long. 



One of our finest asters, with broad, purple flowers, at times 

 2 inches across. The involucral leaves under the flower turn 



