290 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 



is rather a fickle-minded plant and grows equally well in dry 

 or moist soil, sometimes even venturing upon the roadsides. 

 Wherever we find it, however, it is always welcome. 



C. rbsea is the rose-coloured tick-seed that is sometimes 

 found in sandy swamps. It grows from six inches to two feet 

 high, and it is very pretty. 



ROBIN'S OR POOR ROBIN'S PLANTAIN. (Plate CXLSX.) 



Erigeron pulchellus. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Composite. Light violet. Scentless. General. May, June. 



Flower-heads : round, growing in small clusters and composed of both ray 

 and disk flowers ; the former being very numerous. Leaves : few on the stem ; 

 lanceolate ; the basal leaves broader and clinging closely to the ground. Stem : 

 about one foot high ; thick, juicy ; hairy. 



What strange idea filled the pretty head of robin's plantain 

 when it decked itself out to look so much like an aster we do not 

 know ; but its deception is very transparent and we readily 

 discover that it is not one of the aster family. There is a hairy 

 look about the stem and flower which is quite unlike an aster, 

 and another distinctive feature is the way in which its lower 

 leaves lie flat about the ground. 



Perhaps by its advent so early in the season it simply wishes 

 to proclaim the coming of the true asters and the members of 

 the great family of composites. 



LARGER DAISY FLEABANE. SWEET SCABIOUS. 



Erigeron dnnuus. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Composite. White or pur plisJi. Scentless. General. June. 



Flower-heads: small, about three quarters of an inch broad; clustered and 

 composed of both ray and disk flowers. Leaves: lanceolate; the lower ones 

 serrated. Stem: three to five feet high ; branched ; hairy. 



We all know the fleabanes, or little daisies, that spring up in 

 the meadows and along the roadsides in summer and w r hich 

 look so pretty in the bunch of purple asters and golden rods 

 that we carry home as an effective decoration for some se- 

 cluded corner. 



