380 Autumn Honey Plants. 
which deck the hill-side, meadow and marsh land, now 
unfurl their showy involucres, and open their modest 
corollas, to invite the myriad insects to sip the precious 
nectar which each of the clustered flowers secretes. Our 
cultivated sunflowers, I think, are indifferent honey plants, 
Fic. 184. 
Great Willow Herb, after Gray, 
A Flower with ripe stigma, S Ripe stigma, 
St Unripe stamens, # Flower with ripe pollen. 
Petal. Po Pollen grain, 
T Pollen tube. 
though some think them big with beauty, and their seeds 
are relished by poultry. But the numerous species of 
asters (Fig. 183), so wide-spread, the beggar-ticks and 
Spanish-needles, Bidens, of our marshes, the tick-seed 
Coreopsis, also, of the low, marshy places, with hundreds 
more of the great family Composite, are replete with 
