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by side. But the lemon hawk weed is found 

 where the orange dandelion is not, and vice 

 versa. 



On the links are a few dandelions and many 

 mouse-eared hawkweeds ; but there they observe 

 much the same limits as the daisy and the eye- 

 bright. Dandelion and daisy are found consorting 

 on the newer, eyebright and hawkweed on the 

 older, portions. One reason may be found in the 

 long milky taproot of the dandelion and the 

 creeping stolons of the hawkweed. Such pro- 

 visions seem to mark each off for its mode of life. 

 While the dandelion, like the daisy, keeps very 

 much to sunny places, the lemon hawkweed, like 

 the eyebright, creeps under the shadow of the 

 older woods. 



The common ragworts, with the unequal lobing 

 which gives them their torn look, are left behind. 

 On moist ground, the marsh species, less deserving 

 the ugly name because of the greater regularity of 

 the leaves, appears. As a rule, marsh species are 

 extremely accommodating. 



Here and there, mainly in shady places, grows 

 the somewhat similar, but much more graceful, 

 golden-rod, with its long lance-shaped leaves and 

 pretty spikes of yellow flowers. This is a charac- 



