WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
irregularly at the top. It is often streaked with a red 
or purplish stain. The thin-textured, rather smooth, 
slender-stemmed leaves are broadly lance-shaped, 
and have long, sharp, tapering points. The margins 
are coarsely and irregularly nicked with sharp, spread- 
ing teeth. They are broader and heart-shaped at the 
stem toward the base of the stalk. The flowers are 
loosely arranged in a broad, flattened, and repeatedly 
forked top. The few yellow disc florets finally turn to 
brown. The thin, narrow, white ray flowers number 
from six to twelve, and are occasionally tinted. This 
Aster is one of the earliest to blossom, and ranges from 
Canada to Manitoba, Georgia, and Tennessee, from 
August to October. 
WHITE HEATH, OR FROST-WEED ASTER. FROST= 
WEED. MICHAELMAS DAISY. FAREWELL 
SUMMER. WHITE ROSEMARY. DOG-FEN- 
NEL. MARE’S TAIL. SCRUB-BRUSH 
Aster ericoides. Thistle Family. 
A common, small-flowered, and usually bushy 
Aster with its nearly smooth stalk rising from one to 
three feet, and covered with very small, bract-like 
leaflets. It is so closely studded with the prettiest little 
flowers that methinks it may well be the Christmas 
tree of Fairyland, spangled with starlets. The leaves 
are firm or rigid, and the lower ones are paddle-shaped 
with toothed margins and narrowed into winged stems. 
The upper leaves are long, narrow and toothless. The 
flower heads are very numerous and measure from one- 
third to one-half an inch across. From fifteen to 
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