286 YELLOW TO ORANGE 



The bright shining green leaves of this Parsnip and its 

 brilHant golden umbels of minute flowers combine to render 

 it one of the many handsome plants that deck the damp 

 alpine meadows. It has stout hollow stalks and very glossy 

 foliage, the leaves being ternate, or arranged in threes, with 

 broad, wavy -margined, sharply toothed leaflets. It has a most 

 disagreeable odour. 



HAIRY GOLDEN ASTER 



CJirysopsis 7'illosa. Composite P^amily 



Stems: villous. Leaves: alternate, oblong, obtuse, the upper ones 

 sessile, the lower ones narrowed into a petiole, pale, canescent with 

 appressed hairs. Flowers: heads few, terminating the short branches; 

 rays oblong-linear ; involucre hemispheric. Fruit: achenes obovate. 



The yellow Aster is a very hairy plant, as denoted by its 

 common name ; it affects dry or sandy soil, and grows from 

 six to eighteen inches high. The stems are simple, and near 

 the summit short branches spread out, terminating in the 

 solitary heads, which are composed of both tubular and radiate 

 flowers. These bright golden flowers are enclosed in an invo- 

 lucre, which is formed of several series of tiny green bracts. 

 The name Chrysopsis, from chrysos, "gold," and opsis, *' aspect," 

 is peculiarly applicable to these gay yellow blossoms, which 

 glorify the dry waste places with their shining splendour. 



APLOPAPPUS 



Aplopappus Brandegei. Composite Family 



Stems: from a tufted caudex, cinereous-pubescent, the involucre lanu- 

 ginose-tomentose. Leaves: radical ones obovate or spatulate, contracted 

 into a slender petiole ; caulineones few, sparse, small. Flowers: in heads 

 of radiate and disk-flovirers ; rays eight to twelve, ligulate, pistillate, 

 oblong ; disk corollas perfect, dilated towards the summit, deeply five- 

 toothed. Fruit : achenes oblong-turbinate, densely silky villous. 



This is a dwarf herbaceous plant, with a tuft of tiny green 

 leaves at the base and one or two minute ones clinging to its 



