TALL GLOBE THISTLE 



There are several species of Echinops in cultivation; some of 

 these are smaller plants and bear flowers of darker blue, but for 

 height, poise, and dignity, exaltatus easily stands first. 



Other Composite in cultivation are: 



The Eupatoriums, or Thoroughworts, a genus of stout, weedy, 

 erect perennials, bearing discoid flower-heads in loose corymbs 

 and blooming near the close of summer. 



Eupaidrium purpHreum, Joe Pye 

 Weed, becomes a huge plant with a 

 stout, reddish stalk nearly an inch 

 through, crowned at its summit with 

 great masses of bloom, made of many 

 soft, fleecy, magenta-pink florets, bright 

 in the sunshine but dull in the shadow. 



The single erect stem bears handsome 

 whorls of dark, pointed, serrate leaves, 

 which feather it from base to summit. 

 The plant loves the swamps, the borders 

 of rivers, and moist, low, alluvial soil. 



Eupatorium perfoliatum, the Boneset 

 of the domestic materia medica, is often 

 the only notable white flower in the 



tangle of gay colors which the low lands encourage in late sum- 

 mer. Its grayish color is more successful, perhaps, in toning 

 down the gay mixture of yellow and purple of the other com- 

 posites than pure white would be. 



The most delicate of all the Eupatoriums is Eupatorium agera- 

 toides, found on the edge of rich woods amid the imdergrowth. It 

 bears clear, close corymbs of delicate white flowers, and long 

 petioles; thin dark-green leaves deeply and sharply serrate. This 

 species has been taken up by the florists, cultivated, and sold in the 

 shops. It serves the same purpose as Stevia. 



Along with the Eupatoiriums, blooming at the same time and 

 under similar conditions, is the Iron WeedjVerndnia noveboracensis, 



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Eupatorium. Eupatorium 

 ageratoides 



