CHAPTEE XY. 



GOLDEN-ROD AND ASTERS. 



GOLDEN-ROD is a distinctively American flower, 

 not only indigenous to our country, but broadly dis- 

 tributed from one end of it 



B A 

 to the other. There are in A /I 



all no less than seventy-five 

 members of the tribe Soli- f\\j\ I 



dago (Composite family), 

 forty -two of which are de- 

 scribed in Gray's Manual of 

 Botany. But there are only 

 a dozen or so species which 

 are common on the borders 

 of the highway. 



The golden-rods have 

 two distinct kinds of leaves. 

 I have drawn these, and 



A, Feather- veined Leaf; 

 they tell their Own Story at B, Three-ribbed Leaf. 



