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into a slender peduncle, which grows upright from the trailing 

 and creeping stems. June. 



As dainty a floral beauty, loving a mossy nest, as the cool 

 woods afford. Doctor Gray says that this plant was an 

 especial favorite with "the immortal Linnaeus," and that 

 "there is extant at least one contemporary portrait of 

 Linnaeus in which he wears the tiny flowers in his button- 

 hole." 



Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed 



Eupatorium parpureum. — Family, Composite. Color, pale 

 magenta pink, tending to whitish. The flower bracts are pur- 

 plish. Corollas, tubular, 5 -toothed. Pappus, a row of hair-like 

 bristles. Flowers, in dense, compound, flat-topped or pyramidal 

 panicles with a straight, often purplish stem, marked with lines. 

 Plant, 3 to 10 feet high. Leaves, in whorls of 3 to 6, thin, serrate, 

 ovate or lanceolate, 4 to 12 inches long, about 3 inches wide. 

 When in fruit the blooms become "fuzzy." August and Sep- 

 tember. 



Not a handsome plant, but tall and showy, one of the 

 autumn coarser flowers, found in lowlands or in moist woods 

 or thickets. Named from a New England Indian doctor. 

 New England to Florida. There are several varieties of 

 this, differing mainly in the leaves. (See illustration, p. 295.) 



Var. maculktum, called spotted boneset, has purple - spotted 

 stems of lower growth than the last. Leaves, smaller, more finely 

 toothed, 3 to 5 in a whorl, the upper, perhaps, opposite, thicker 

 and rougher. Cyme of flowers flatter, and the flowers of a deeper 

 crimson. Growing also in wet grounds with nearly the same 

 range. 



Vanilla Plant 



Trilisa odoratissima. — Family, Composite. Color, deep crimson 

 or purplish. Heads without rays, small, in flattish panicles. 

 Leaves, large, entire, light green, those below oblong or spatulate, 

 4 to 10 inches long; the upper smaller, bract-like. Smooth stem. 

 Autumn. 



Pine barrens of New Jersey and southward. The odor of 

 vanilla is given out by the crushed leaves. 



Fleabane 



Erigeron philadelphicus. — Family, Composite. Color of the 

 numerous, narrow rays crimson with a purplish tinge, while the 

 center of the flower is yellow. Flowers, small, growing in corymbed 



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