YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
veined leaves are toothed and stemmed. They are 
nearly paddle-shaped at the base of the stalk, and 
graduate to lance-shaped with modified margins 
toward the top, where they mingle with the flowers. 
They are more or less hairy. This species is truly 
a Silver-rod. It is too erect and stiff to be graceful, 
but its terminal spike is evenly studded all around with 
the little short clusters of whitish flowers, relieved 
here and there by a tiny green leaflet, and is unusual 
if not attractive. From five to fourteen small white 
ray flowers surround the cream-coloured centre of disc 
flowers. The Silver-rod prefers dry soils, where it 
blossoms from August to October. It ranges from 
New Brunswick to Georgia, and west to Ontario, 
Minnesota, and Missouri. 
BOG GOLDEN-ROD 
Solidago uligindsa. Thistle Family. 
Think of this pretty flash of yellow spending its life 
among the bogs and in dismal swamps, even in New- 
foundland! One imagines it to be the nun of the 
family, sacrificing a conventional life to brighten 
those lonely, desolate wastes. Or, are they Nature’s 
beacon lights intended to guide the straggling and 
wayward insects and butterflies that have vainly sought 
some Will-o’-the-Wisp in these same dreary places. 
It raises its single, smooth, stout stem from two to 
four feet in height. Its thick-textured leaves are lance- 
shaped, and they decrease in size as they approach 
the top of the stalk. The basal leaves are sometimes 
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