COMPOSITE FAMILY 



COMPOSITE 



THE great family of plants in which the flowers 

 are closely crowded together into a flat head, as 

 illustrated in the case of the familiar Sunflower, 

 is called Composite. This includes a large pro- 

 portion of the conspicuous wild flowers found 

 throughout the season. While the most of these 

 blossom during the summer and autumn months a 

 few species are much in evidence through the 

 spring and early summer. 



SPRING EVERLASTING. The Spring or Plan- 

 tain Everlasting has been blessed with quite a 

 variety of common names. It is often called the 

 Mouse-eared Everlasting and Early Everlasting, 

 as well as White Plantain and Pussy Toes. In 

 New England it is commonly called Indian To- 

 bacco, while the botanists give Ladies' Tobacco 

 as one of its names. I think its genus name 

 Antennaria a pretty one and wish the plant 

 might be generally so called. This name \vas 

 given because of the fancy that the pappus of 

 the stamen-bearing flowers resembles the feelers 

 or antennae of insects. 



This Antennaria is a perennial, the basal ro- 

 sette of the broadly oval leaves passing through 

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