WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



reputed as a remedy in fits and hysterics, and the fresh 

 juice was applied externally for skin disorders. The 

 Yellow Bedstraw is a single or branched perennial 

 growing from six to thirty inches high. The stem is 

 usually smooth, and the narrow leaves are arranged in 

 whorls of sixes or eights. The numerous yellow 

 flowers are gathered in small, dense terminal clusters, 

 or set at the axils of the leaves. 



GOLDEN ASTER 



Chrysopsis mariana. Thistle Family. 



The beautiful golden heads of this Aster-like species 

 arc generally common during August and September, 

 along the Atlantic Coast. The stout stalk branches 

 at the top for the flowers. It is covered with long, 

 weak, silky hairs when young, and becomes much 

 smoother as the season advances. It grows perennially 

 from one to two and a half feet in height. The acutely 

 pointed upper leaves are oblong or lance-shaped, 

 aud clasp the stalk. The lower ones are narrowed 

 into short stems and are broadest toward the tip. 

 They are hairy and veiny, and their margins are 

 utiually toothless. The rather large flower head is 

 composed of both ray and disc florets, which are held 

 in a bell-shaped cup of overlapping green bractlets. 

 They are commonly numerous, and are loosely gathered 

 on slender stems, which spring from the axils of leaflets 

 and form loose, showy, flat-topped clusters. The 

 Golden Aster prefers dry soil in fields and open wood- 

 lands, from New York to Florida and Louisiana, 



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