COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite. 



W ood ^ similar species with a similar environ- 



or Absinth merit. Leaves small and often deeply 

 Artemisia subdivided, covered with fine hairs so the 



Absinthium color is a somewhat silvery green. The 

 insignificant light yellow-green flowers are gathered in 

 a scattering cluster. The long terminal spikes are rather 

 dishevelled and picturesque. 2-4 feet high. 



A delicate, pure yellow, daisy like flower 



^•■"i*^* with 10-14 three-toothed rays, found only 

 Armca . \, 



Chamissonis upon mountain summits of N. Eng. and 



Pure yellow N. Y., in moist situations. The^ deep 



June- green leaves long lance-shaped, slightly 



Septem er toothed, and stemless — at least the upper 



ones. The hairy stem 1-2 feet high. Also in the Rocky 



Mountains. Found in Oakes's Gulf, Mt. Washington. 



^ .^ An earlv blooming perennial with hand- 



Golden " 



Ragwort some deep golden jellow, daisylike flow- 



Senecio aureus ers (8-12 rays) nearly an inch broad, in 

 Deep gold terminal clusters on the grooved, brown- 



yellow streaked stem ; the disc-florets perfect, the 



May-July 



rays pistillate. The thick root-leaves in 



early April resemble violet leaves ; they are small, heart- 

 shaped, scallop-toothed, dark green above and magenta- 

 red beneath ; later tliej" become elongated. The long 

 stem-leaves more or less deeply lobed, the uppermost 

 small and clasping the plant-stem. The plant is woolly- 

 hairy when 3'oung. 12-32 inches high. Common in wet 

 meadows everywhere. Found at Clarendon Hills, Mass. 

 Senecio Balsamitce is lower, has fewer flowers, and the 

 basal leaves are oblong, with the ruddy lower surfaces 

 sometimes persistently woollj'. , 



A tall, uninteresting, annual weed with 

 Erechtites generally smooth, rank-odored stem and 



hieracifoila leaves. The latter are thin, lance-shaped 

 White or broader, and irregularly toothed or 



s" t h deeply incised. The stem is full of sap, 



heavy, and grooved ; the insignificant 

 flowers are brush-shaped, mostly green by reason of the 

 superior flower-envelop, and tipped with the white of 

 the tubular, fertile florets. 1-7 feet high. Common in 

 burned-over glearings or waste places eveiy where. 



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