Minnesota Plant Life. 



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There are in Minnesota between 240 and 250 species of 

 composites, including the ironweeds, the blazing-stars, the thor- 

 ouehworts or bonesets, the asters, the fleabanes and Boltonias, 



Fig. 194. Dandelions in flower. I,ake Calhoun. After photograph by Hibbard. 



the goldenrods, the rosinweeds or compass-plants, the cone- 

 flowers, sunflowers, tickseeds, bur-marigolds or beggar-ticks, 

 sneezeweeds, chrysanthemums, tansies and yarrows, cudweeds, 

 everlastings, ragworts, thistles, burdocks, ragweeds, cockleburs, 

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