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The many plants usually styled sun-flowers, because of 

 their resemblance to our cultivated plants of that name, 

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

 Pig. Q9.—Qolden-Bod. 



their showy involucres, and open their modest corollas, to in- 

 vite the myriad insects to sip the precious nectar which 

 each of the clustered flowers secretes. Our cultivated sun- 

 flowers, I think, are indifferent honey plants, though some 

 Tig. 100.— Aster. 



think them big with beauty, and their seeds are relished by 

 poultry. But the asters (Fig. 100), so wide-spread, the 



