THE TlilSTLK 1 A.MILV. 2,. 



oVate-oblong- leaves, which are deeply cordate and clasping at the base. 

 They are, moreover, entire and exlreniely rouj^di on the margins and upper 

 and lower surfaces. The widely divergent stems bear at the ends of leafy 

 branchlets large flower-heads, measuring often somewhat over an inch in 

 diameter. The bracts of the top-shaped involucre are pubescent on their 

 outer sides, and their pointed tips are quite spreading. 



HfL-asfruni CJiapmanii. {Plalc L'LXX.) 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Tliistle. Purple. Scentless. Western 1-loriiLt thfrf-rr. 



Flower-heads : large; sohtary and terminal at the ends of slender branche-i. 

 Involucre: with lanceolate, stiff scales, imbricated in many rows. Kays: showv', 

 long, toothed, or entire at their summits. Lemus: those about the base, long ; 

 spreading ; linear ; those on the upper stem smaller ; sessile and bcconunK* bract- 

 like; erect. Stem : two to three feet erect, sparingly branched above, smooth. 



In the pine-barren swamps of its restricted range where many unu.sual 

 plants are congregated, this slender and rather stiff-looking individual is 

 conspicuous through its beautiful flower-heads, spread widely apart. Its 

 foliage is not particularly noticeable. 



ROBIN'S OR POOR ROBIN'S PLANTAIN. 

 SPRING DAISY. 



Erigeron pulchcllus. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Tliistle. Violet or purple. Scentless. Lottisiann and Florida .{priijunr. 



to Nova Scotia. 



Flower-heads : growing on woolly peduncles in terminal clusters and being com- 

 posed of both radiate and tubular flowers. Involucres : depressed, the bracts 

 linear, often j^urple-tinted. Leaves : those about the base tufted, spatulatc, or 

 obovate lanceolate, blunt at the apex and tapering into margined petioles. Stem- 

 leaves : smaller ; lanceolate or ovate ; sessile ; entire or dentate ; ciliate and closely 

 covered with white hairs. Stem : six to twenty inches high, erect ; simple, very 

 woolly with white hairs. 



It seems strange to see the robin's plantain in blow so early in the sea- 

 son as April when the spring is advanced, for it has much the look of an 

 aster, a tribe of course closely identified with the autumn. In a rosette on 

 the ground lie its basal leaves, and usually it rears itself jauntily on hillsides, 

 or shady banks. It is a plant that is prematurely grey or, as its generic 

 name quaintly signifies, early old. Almost before the wild flowers are well 

 under way in a summer's sun, it displays its hoary pappus. 



E. vernus, early fleabane, sends upward a tall, nearly nakeil stem, with 

 but a few bract-like leaves, and bears in a corymbed cluster many flower 

 heads. They look much like little daisies, and often are so called, for the 



