346 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



GOLDEN ASTER 



Chrysopsis villosa. Composite Family 



Stems: villous. Leaves: alternate, oblong, obtuse, the upper ones 

 sessile, the lower ones narrowed into a petiole, pale, canescent with 

 appressed hairs. Flowers: heads few, terminating the short branches; 

 rays oblong-linear; involucre hemispheric. Fruit: achenes obovate. 



The yellow Aster is a very hairy plant, it affects dry or 

 sandy soil, and grows from six to eighteen inches high. The 

 stems are simple, and near the summit short branches spread 

 out, terminating in the solitary heads, which are composed of 

 both tubular and radiate flowers. These bright golden 

 flowers are enclosed in an involucre, which is formed of 

 several series of tiny green bracts. The name Chrysopsis, 

 from chrysos, " gold," and apsis, " aspect," is peculiarly ap- 

 plicable to these gay yellow blossoms, which glorify the dry 

 waste places with their shining splendour. 



Chrysopsis hispida, or Hairy Golden Aster, is a lower 

 plant than the preceding species and has numerous stems 

 growing from a woody rootstock. It is hispid or rough- 

 hairy throughout. The leaves are spatulate entire and 

 spreading, obtuse at the apex and narrowed at the base into 

 long petioles. The flower heads are numerous and bright 

 yellow, and the involucre has lanceolate hirsute bracts. 



CANADA GOLDEN-ROD 



Solidago canadensis. Composite Family 



Stems: stout, little branched, puberulent. Leaves: alternate, lance- 

 olate, triple-nerved, acute at each end, the lower ones sharply serrate and 

 petioled, the upper ones smaller, entire, sessile. Flowers: heads numer- 

 ous, of both tubular and radiate flowers, on the spreading or recurving 

 branches of the large and dense panicles ; involucre campanulate, the 

 bracts linear, imbricated in several series; rays in one series, pistillate; 

 disk-flowers nearly all perfect ; corolla tubular, five-cleft. 



