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(Fig. 371) are pre-empting attention by July, as are also the cone- 

 flowers (Fig. 372); the purple ones are notably brilliant. Then 

 in late summer come blazing 

 stars (Fig. 133), rosin weed 

 (Fig. 373), asters, goldenrods, 

 and beggar-ticks, whose fruits 

 you carry away as souvenirs 

 nolens volens. The above- 

 mentioned plants, because 

 they are conspicuous when in 

 blossom, give a constantly 

 changing character to the 

 prairie, yet, after all, the 

 dominant things are the 

 prairie grasses such as blue- 



FiG. 367. — Wild hyacinth, Camassia 

 esculenta. 



Fig. 366. — Shooting star, Dodeca- 

 theon meadia. 



stem, Andropogon furcatiis, 

 and dropseed, Sporobolus 

 cryptandrus (Fig. 374), that 

 by their very abundance and 

 uniformity fail to strike 

 attention. 



As the prairie with domi- 

 nating clay soil becomes 

 pretty dry such plants as the 

 rose pink prairie phlox (Fig. 

 375), prickly lettuce (Fig. 62), 

 butterfly weed, prairie thistle, 

 everlasting, rattlesnake master 

 (Fig. 376) become more 



