sSo 



Autumn Honey Plants. 



which deck the hill-side, meadow and marsh land, now 

 unfurl their showy involucres, and open their modest 

 corollas, to invite the myriad insects to sip the precious 

 nectar which each of the clustered flowers secretes. Our 

 cultivated sunflowers, I think, are indifferent honey plants, 



Fig. 184. 



Great Willoio Herb, afier Gray, 



A Flower with ripe stigma. 

 .5"^ Unripe stamens, 

 P Petal. 

 T Pollen tube. 



.S Ripe stigma. 

 R Flower with ripe polle 

 Po Pollen grain. 



though some think them big with beauty, and their seeds 

 are relished by poultry. But the numerous species of 

 asters (Fig. 183), so wide-spread, the beggar-ticks and 

 Spanish-needles, Bidens, of our marshes, the tick-seed, 

 Coreopsis, also, of the low, marshy places, with hundreds 

 more of the great family Compositse, are replete with 



