422 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 
A more slender plant than the preceding, erect, smooth, many- 
branched, one to two feet tall. Leaves narrow lance-shaped or 
the lowermost ones slashed into narrow, pointed lobes, the upper 
ones approaching to linear, but all acute at the apex, sharply 
toothed, sessile or clasping. Heads about an inch broad, with 
perfect djsk florets and numerous narrow yellow rays, pistillate 
and fertile; bracts of the involucre very slender and awl-shaped, 
only the outer row spreading and the inner ones erect; achenes 
smooth, two-toothed, with a pappus of one or two awns. 
Means of control the same as for the Broad-leaved Gum Plant. 
MARYLAND GOLDEN ASTER 
Chrysépsis mariana, Nutt. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: August to September. 
Seed-time: September to October. 
Range: Southern New York and Penn- 
sylvania, southward to Florida and 
Louisiana. 
Habitat: Dry, rather sterile fields, mead- 
ows, and pastures. 
A very handsome, conspicuous plant 
with numerous golden  flower-heads, 
often an inch broad, upheld in terminal, 
branching, flat-topped clusters. Cattle 
refuse to eat the plant, whether as 
green forage or cured with hay. 
Stem stout, one to two feet in height, 
set with silky hairs when young, but 
nearly smooth when old. Leaves alter- 
nate entire, oblong to lance-shape, or 
those near the base spatulate and nar- 
rowed to a petiole, the upper ones sessile, 
all silken-hairy when young but becom- 
ing smooth with age. Heads in co- 
tymbose clusters on viscid, glandular 
peduncles, and the pointed involucral 
Fie. 294.— Maryland 
Golden Aster (Chrysopsis : : : 
mariana). X}. bracts also are sticky-hairy; rays six- 
