YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



veined leaves are toothed and stemmed. They are 

 nearly paddle-shaped at the base of the stalk, and 

 graduate to lance-shaped with modified margins 

 toward the top, where they mingle with the flowers. 

 They are more or less hairy. This species is truly 

 a Silver-rod. It is too erect and stiff to be graceful, 

 but its terminal spike is evenly studded all around with 

 the little short clusters of whitish flowers, relieved 

 here and there by a tiny green leaflet, and is unusual 

 if not attractive. From five to fourteen small white 

 ray flowers surround the cream-coloured centre of disc 

 flowers. The Silver-rod prefers dry soils, where it 

 blossoms from August to October. It ranges from 

 New Brunswick to Georgia, and west to Ontario, 

 Minnesota, and Missouri. 



BOG GOLDEN=ROD 



Solidago uliginosa. Thistle Family. 



Think of this pretty flash of yellow spending its life 

 among the bogs and in dismal swamps, even in New- 

 foundland! One imagines it to be the nun of the 

 family, sacrificing a conventional life to brighten 

 those lonely, desolate wastes. Or, are they Nature's 

 beacon lights intended to guide the straggling and 

 wayward insects and butterflies that have vainly sought 

 some Will-o'- the- Wisp in these same dreary places. 

 It raises its single, smooth, stout stem from two to 

 four feet in height. Its thick-textured leaves are lance- 

 shaped, and they decrease in size as they approach 

 the top of the stalk. The basal leaves are sometimes 



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