CHAPTER XYI. 



SEPTEMBER AND 

 NOVEMBER. 



Iron-weed to Chry- 

 santhemum. 



Iron-weed. 



Vernonia 

 Koveboracensis. 



The iron-weed 

 has a formi- 

 dable Latin 

 name, wliieli in plain English 

 means Mr. Yernon, and " be- 

 longing to New York," 

 bnt this fact does 

 not confine the 

 weed to the bound- 

 aries of this State. 

 It grows all along 

 the coast country, 

 beside the river 

 and the road, any- 

 where from three to five feet high ; so it must surely 

 be seen by the most unol)serving. Its rather spai-ing 

 cluster of crimson-magenta flowers shows itself about 

 the time of the asters, and it might easily be mistaken 



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Iron-weed. 



