WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE. 
reputed as a remedy in fits and hysterics, and the fresh 
juice was applied externally for skin disorders. The 
Yellow Bedstraw is a single or branched perennial 
growing from six to thirty inches high. The stem is 
usually smooth, and the narrow leaves are arranged in 
whorls of sixes or eights. The numerous yellow 
flowers are gathered in small, dense terminal clusters, 
or set at the axils of the leaves. 
GOLDEN ASTER 
Chrysépsis mariana. Thistle Family. 
The beautiful golden heads of this Aster-like species 
are generally common during August and September, 
along the Atlantic Coast. The stout stalk branches 
at the top for the flowers. It is covered with long, 
weak, silky hairs when young, and becomes much 
sn,oother as the season advances. It grows perennially 
from one to two and a half feet in height. The acutely 
pointed upper leaves are oblong or lance-shaped, 
and clasp the stalk. The lower ones are narrowed. 
into short stems and are broadest toward the tip. 
They are hairy and veiny, and their margins are 
usually toothless. The rather large flower head is 
composed of both ray and disc florets, which are held 
in a bell-shaped cup of overlapping green bractlets. 
They are commonly numerous, and are loosely gathered 
oa slender stems, which spring from the axils of leaflets 
and form loose, showy, flat-topped clusters. The 
Golden Aster prefers dry soil in fields and open wood- 
lands, from New York to Florida and Louisiana. 
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