COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite 



Wormwood ^ similar species with a similar environ- 



or Absinth ment. Leaves small and often deeply 

 Artemisia subdivided, covered with fine hairs so the 

 Absinthium color is a somewhat silvery green. The 

 insignificant light yellow-green flowers are gathered in 

 a scattering cluster. The long terminal spikes are rather 

 dishevelled and picturesque. 2-4 feet high. 



A delicate, pure yellow, daisy like flower 

 Arnica with 10-14 three-toothed rays, found only 



Arnica mollis , A - XT 1-1 * 



var petiolaris u P on mountain summits of N. Eng. and 

 Pure yellow N. Y., in moist situations. The deep 

 June- green leaves long lance-shaped, slightly 



September toothed, and stemless at least the upper 

 ones. The hairy stem 1-2 feet high. Also in the Rocky 

 Mountains. Found in Oakes's Gulf, Mt. Washington. 



An early blooming perennial with hand- 

 Golden 

 Ragwort some deep golden yellow, daisy like flow- 



Senedo aureus ers (8-12 rays) nearly an inch broad, in 

 Deep gold terminal clusters on the grooved, brown- 



yellow streaked stem ; the disc-florets perfect, the 



rays pistillate. The thick root-leaves in 

 early April resemble violet leaves ; they are small, heart- 

 shaped, scallop-toothed, dark green above and magenta- 

 red beneath ; later they become elongated. The long 

 stem-leaves more or less deeply lobed, the uppermost 

 small and clasping the plant-stem. The plant is woolly- 

 hairy when young. 12-32 inches high. Common in wet 

 meadows everywhere. Found at Clarendon Hills, Mass. 

 Senecio Balsamitce is lower, has fewer flowers, and the 

 basal leaves are oblong, with the ruddy lower surfaces 

 sometimes persistently woolly. 



A tall, uninteresting, annual weed with 

 Fireweed 



Erechtites generally smooth, rank-odored stem and 



hieradfolia leaves. The latter are thin, lance-shaped 



White or broader, and irregularly toothed or 



deeply incised. The stem is full of sap, 



heavy, and grooved; the insignificant 



flowers are brush-shaped, mostly green by reason of the 



superior flower-envelop, and tipped with the white of 



the tubular, fertile florets. 1-7 feet high. Common in 



burned-over clearings or waste places everywhere. 



