186 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



rusty-yellow flowers without rays. The seed vessels 

 are barb-pointed and catch on one's clothes and in the 

 wool of sheep, and are thus transported to different 

 localities. I remember 

 spending " oceans " of 

 time divesting my woolen 

 stockings of the thorny 

 little objects, which I had 

 gathered unawares in the 

 passage through a pasture 

 on a certain slope of the 

 White Hills. A knicker- 

 bocker suit is undoubtedly 

 best adapted to mountain 

 tramps, but one is a "tramp" 

 in reality if his stockings en- 

 counter the magic touch of 

 beggar-ticks. Each separate seed 

 vessel demands individual atten- 

 tion ; brushes are of no avail. 

 The bur -marigold blooms 

 August. 



There is another variety, called 

 B. chrysanthemoides^ which bears 

 pretty yellow-rayed flowers about two inches in di- 

 ameter which resemble coreopsis ; the bur-marigold, 

 in fact, is closely related to the coreopsis and sun- 



Bidens chrysanthe- 

 moides. 



