322 Ibcrbaceous plants. 



Trumpet Weed, Eupatorium purpurewm. — One of our 

 largest aud most effective perennials, growing in scattered 

 masses on moist banks and in low grassy fields, flowering late 

 in the season. Leaves long, lanceolate, in whorls of three or 

 more. The very numerous purplish heads are collected in 

 compound corymbs sometimes a foot and a half across. 

 Height from three to twelve feet. Fine for naturalizing on 

 margins of water or in open glades in low ground. E. 

 ageratoides is a smaller, more spreading plant with numer- 

 ous white heads of flowers in compound corymbs. Useful 

 for the same purpose as the preceding one. 



Mist Flower, Conoclinium ccelestinam. — This is a very 

 handsome native plant forming broad and dense masses of 

 leaves and flowers, late in summer and autumn. Leaves 

 triangular-ovate, coarsely toothed. Flowers blue or pur- 

 ple, sometimes white, in small heads forming dense corymbs 

 much like those of Ageratum. Grows in open woods or 

 among Eupatorium in open fields. Fine for naturalizing in 

 scattered masses on grassy banks or hillsides. 



Golden Senecio, Senecio aureus. — A graceful plant with 

 simple stems about two feet high, and very varied, mostly 

 heart-shaped, petioled leaves ; root leaves lyrate. Flower- 

 heads with golden-yellow rays, in flat corymbs. For river 

 shores, margins of water, or moist places in rockeries. The 

 purple ragwort (S. elegani) is an elegant annual used for 

 summer bedding. Flowers purple and white with yellow 

 disk, in many shades, single or double, somewhat like the 

 common cineraria. Propagated by seeds indoors. 



Arnica, Arnica montana. — A very handsome plant of 

 highland meadows and grassy fields, chiefly in Northern 



