HELENIUM TENUIFOLIUM. 



SLENDER-LEAVED SNEEZEWORT. 



NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSIT/E. (Astf.race.k ok Lindlev.) 



Helenium TENUIFOLIUM, Nuttall. — Smooth; stem slender, very leafy; leaves narrow-linear, 

 entire; heads on long and slender peduncles; scales of the involucre subulate ; scales of 

 the pappus ovate, entire, abruptly awncd; achenia villous. Stem one to two feet high. 

 Branches erect. (Chapman's Flora of the SoiitJurn United States. See also Wood's Class- 

 Book of Botany!) 



|ELL0W, aster-like blossoms are so common among the 

 wild flowers of the United States that they are not very 

 likely to attract special attention, unless they are peculiarly 

 beautiful. Our Hckniiun tcmiifoliuni is one of these excep 

 tlons, and whoever has seen it in its native places — the prairies 

 of Texas and Arkansas, which are celebrated for their wild flow- 

 ers — will bear testimony to the fact that it adds largely to the 

 general loveliness of the scenery in those parts of our common 

 country. Those, however, who have not had the privilege of 

 gathering this plant in its native wilds can grow it in gardens, 

 in which, according to the testimony of the florists who have 

 cultivated it, it Is a most desirable acquisition. In England, 

 where good border-flowers are especially sought, it is so highly 

 appreciated that the " Garden," a leading horticultural magazine 

 published in London, recently gave an illustration of it, show- 

 ing what a beautiful ilower it will make under careful culti\a- 

 tion. This engraving represents the plant as a perfect bouquet, 

 the rounded flower-cluster of the single plant measuring two 

 thirds of its height, and exhibiting many scores of blossoms 

 all expanded at the same time. Prof. Wood says that our si)e- 



