I 6 DIPLOPAPPUS LINARIIFOLIUS. SANDPAPER STAR-WORT. 



leave us, the seeds being scarcely mature In Pennsylvania by the 

 time the severe frosts come. The height of its season in that 

 State is October, though it commences to flower in September. 

 Prof. Wood places it a month earlier than this. It is generally 

 found in dry, hilly, rather open woods, from Canada to Florida, 

 along the Adantic coast; but it lessens its northern range as it 

 proceeds west, and is not found on the other side of the Missouri 

 or Mississippi, 



It is more favored than many of its allies in being of some use 

 to man in other ways beside its beauty, for in South Carolina, 

 where it is rather abundant, the leaves are used as a substitute 

 for sandpaper in polishing horn. 



Explanations of the Plate. — i. Branch from several that formed a low bushy plant. 

 2. Magnified disk floret. 



