102 Composite ( Composites. ). [No. 13 



Fruit, covered and whitened, with hooked bristles. 



Fotmd, in rich, damp ground throughout the United 

 States and Canada. 



A weak vine, one to three feet in length, with the 

 angles of the stem roughened backwards. The plant is 

 fragrant in drying. 



Fig. 52. — Hairy Bedstraw. G.pilbsum, Ait. 



Flowers, purplish. Flower-stems, two- or three-forked. 

 July to Sept. 



Leaves, one inch long (or sometimes less), four in a whorl, 

 oval, not bristle-pointed, three-nerved ; surface some- 

 what hairy and dotted. 



Fruit, beset with hooked hairs. 



Found, from Vermont to Illinois and southward. 



A weak perennial vine, one to three feet long, reclining 

 or sometimes erect. Stems branching, hairy on the edges 

 or somewhat rough. 



No. 13.— Family COMPOSITE. (Composite Fam.) 

 Genus Mikania, Willd. 



Named after a botanist of Prague. 



Fig- 53-— Climbing Hemp-Weed. Climbing Boneset. M. 



scdndens, L. 



Flowers, flesh-colored to pale purplish, in clusters made 

 up of many small heads, each head composed of four 



