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COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



A more slender plant than the preceding, erect, smooth, many- 

 branched, one to two feet tall. Leaves narrow lance-shaped or 

 the lowermost ones slashed into narrow, pointed lobes, the upper 

 ones approaching to linear, but all acute at the apex, sharply 

 toothed, sessile or clasping. Heads about an inch broad, with 

 perfect disk florets and numerous narrow yellow rays, pistillate 

 and fertile; bracts of the involucre very slender and awl-shaped, 

 only the outer row spreading and the inner ones erect; achenes 

 smooth, two-toothed, with a pappus of one or two awns. 



Means of control the same as for the Broad-leaved Gum Plant. 



MARYLAND GOLDEN ASTER 



Chrysopsis mariana, Nutt. 



Seed-time : Septeml 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : August to September, 

 tnber to October. 



Range : Southern New York and Penn- 

 sylvania, southward to Florida and 

 Louisiana. 



Habitat : Dry, rather sterile fields, mead- 

 ows, and pastures. 



A very handsome, conspicuous plant 

 with numerous golden flower-heads, 

 often an inch broad, upheld in terminal, 

 branching, flat-topped clusters. Cattle 

 refuse to eat the plant, whether as 

 green forage or cured with hay. 



Stem stout, one to two feet in height, 

 set with silky hairs when young, but 

 nearly smooth when old. Leaves alter- 

 nate entire, oblong to lance-shape, or 

 those near the base spatulate and nar- 

 rowed to a petiole, the upper ones sessile, 

 all silken-hairy when young but becom- 

 ing smooth with age. Heads in co- 

 rymbose clusters on viscid, glandular 

 GoMe" ^T^krllo^ peduncles, and the pointed involucral 

 mariana). xi bracts also are sticky-hairy; rays six- 



