WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
twenty-five fine, white or rose-tinted rays surround 
the yellow disc florets. The flowers are thickly set 
along one side of the numerous, wire-like branches, 
and become very attractive as the majority bloom at 
about the same period. The rays are necessarily 
very fine. The yellow centre is plump and compact, 
and it resembles a miniature Daisy more than 
the general run of Asters. This Aster is found 
almost everywhere in dry soil, from August to 
October, and from Maine and Ontario to Florida, 
west to Wisconsin and Kentucky. 
DENSE-FLOWERED, OR WHITE WREATH 
ASTER. FALL FLOWER 
Aster multiflorus. Thistle Family. 
This tiny-flowered Aster is common in dry, open 
places from August to November, and grows from one 
to seven feet high, with ascending and spreading 
branches. It is so thickly covered with the finest 
whitish hairs as to appear pale and hoary. The leaves 
are very narrow and rigid, with entire margins, and 
they partly clasp the stalk at the base. They are rough 
to the touch, and those which are crowded on the 
branches are very small and bract-like. The minute 
flowers measure from one-quarter to one-third of an 
inch across and are densely clustered along the branches. 
They have from ten to twenty white rays and the yel- 
low disc florets are few in number. The leaflets are 
so very numerous that notwithstanding the reckless pro- 
éusion of the flowers, the plant shows much of the green 
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