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432 FLOWERS OF FIELD, LLILL, AND SWAMP 



backward, and are rough and bristly in appearance. The disk 

 is small, of a bright yellow. 



Very common in dry soil from Massachusetts and Long Island 

 southward. The stem is thick and rough, flowers few or single on 

 the upper branches. 



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A. cbncolor has showy, dark-violet rays in heads which make 

 a simple or compound, straight, narrow raceme. The leaves 

 are soft and silky, grayish on both sides, oblong, i inch long 

 below, crowded, and pressed close against the stem, the upper 

 ones being small bracts. Stem 2 or 3 feet high. 



Found in Long Island and New Jersey and southward in the 

 late summer or early autumn. 



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A. ericoides bears tiny white flowers, becoming pinkish, with 

 fine, hair-like rays and yellow, compact disks. It might be a 

 small daisy. Leaves small, narrow, the lower broader and 

 somewhat toothed. The stems are slender and wiry, from i to 

 3 feet high. Branches spreading and bearing flowers upon the 

 upper side. 



An early and late flowering aster, being one of those found 

 in the October woods. Common from Connecticut and Rhode 

 Island southward and westward. 



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^l. multiflhrus is a low, bushy plant, i foot tall, with small 

 heads of whitish flowers much crowded in racemes on the ends 

 of the branches. Leaves small, bract-like above, sessile, thick 

 and rigid, lying close to the stem, rough on the margins. 



Common in flry, sandy soil. A pale-green, homely species. 



M '^ "^ 47, Narrow-leaved Sunflower 



Helidnthus angusiifolius. — Co/or, rays bright yellow; disk 



