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common beside moist thickets ; it grows from two 

 to seven feet high. 



11. Aster corymbosus. Slender, white aster. 

 Blooms very early, from July to the first of 

 September. Leaves ovate, lower ones heart-shape 

 based, thin, smoothish, coarsely and unevenly sharp- 

 toothed, taper-pointed, and olive-green. Stem slen- 

 der and somewhat zigzag. Flowers with from six 

 to nine white rays borne in small loose 

 clusters. This species is common in 



woods and beside the woodland road ; 

 it grows from one to two feet high, 

 and is not showy. 



12. Aster ericoides. White, 

 heathlike aster. Blooms from 

 the middle of August, or earlier, 

 to late September. Leaves tiny 



and slightly hairy, narrowly Aster ericoides. 

 lance - shaped and light green. 

 The lower ones are broader at the upper end ; rarely 

 they are toothed. The stem is nearly smooth and 

 set with spreading branches. The tiny white flowers 

 resemble miniature daisies ; the clusters terminate the 

 erect branchlets. This beautiful little aster is com- 

 mon in dry open places of certain localities in New 

 England. It is familiar on the roadsides of the 

 South and West, and in many a stony field its white, 



