PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 127 



TICK-TREFOIL (Desmodium Dellenii). Pulse family. 

 Ht. 2-3 ft.; stem hairy; flowers similar to above, 

 middle-sized; leaflets (3), oblong, pale beneath {2-3 

 in. long). Open woody places. Common. Early 

 summer-autumn . 



Fig. 63. 



Tick-trefoil (Desmodium nudifloruni). 



19. Leaves otherwise than opposite or whorled, upright herb, 

 flowers in cluster, composite. 



PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE (Erigeron Philadelphicus) . 



Composite family. 



AY. ht. 2 ft.; hairy; number of flower-heads 

 resembling small daisies; disk yellow, rays many, 

 narrow; leaves with broad midrib, oblong, upper 

 clasping and mostly without teeth, lowest with teeth. 

 Moist ground. Common. Summer. 



SALT-MARSH FLEABANE (Pluchea camphorata). Corn^ 



posite family. 



Max. ht. 3 ft.; heads in terminal and axillary 

 clusters; long-stalked; flowers tubular; leaves 

 almost without stems, sharply toothed. Low ground. 

 Late summer, autumn. 



See also YARROW, which is occasionally pink (White 38). 



