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upward. The stalk grows 

 about two feet liigh, and 

 generally bears but one 

 flower, orange-yellow out- 

 side and vermilion inside, 

 spotted with brown mad- 

 der — hardly the purple 

 color which Gray men- 

 tions. The flower varies 

 in hue, and is sometimes 

 red-orange instead of ver- 

 milion. It blooms about 

 the 1st of July, in the 

 thin woods, where the 

 ground is more or less 

 sandy. 



The black- 

 eyed Susan, 

 as the chil- 

 dren call it. Gray says is 

 a Western flower which 

 was introduced into our 

 Eastern meadows with 

 clover seed. It is fre- 

 quently called cone-flow- 

 er by reason of the rather 

 high cone-shaped center 



Black-eyed 

 Susan. 



Rudheckia hirta. 



Lilium Philadelphicum. 



