43° FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



leafy. The leaves, thick and somewhat broad below, grow 

 upward on the stem into mere bracts. The heads of yellow 

 flowers are small, crowded, spiked, or racemed. 



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S. pitbsa is a tall species, 3 to 7 feet, with the same range as 

 the last. The stem is stout and hairy. Leaves rough, lance- 

 shaped, sessile. Heads of flowers in a dense, pyramid-shaped, 

 recurved panicle. Rays few and short. 



41. Golden Aster 



Chrysdpsis falcaia.— Family, Composite. Color, golden 

 yellow. Leaves, stiff, entire, narrow, long, sessile, crowded ir- 

 regularly on the stem, hairy, smooth when old, often curved 

 and scythe-shaped. Time, August and September. 



Corollas, tubular. Rays, present. Both rays and disk a 

 showy, golden color. Flowers, large, resembling asters. The 

 plant is often delicate in stem and leaves, and again rough, 

 woolly, thickened, and misshapen, 8 or 10 inches high. 



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Frequently found growing with the above is C. Maricma, 

 a smoothly silky plant, with broader, oblong leaves and heads 

 in flattish clusters on glandular peduncles. 



These are handsome flowers, adorning many sterile spots with 

 beauty from Massachusetts and Long Island southward to Penn- 

 sylvania, not far from the coast. 



43. Showy Aster 



Aster spectabilis. — Family, Composite. Color, bright pur- 

 ple. Leaves, ovate, pointed, long. 



One of our finest asters, with broad, purple flowers, at times 

 2 inches across. The involucral leaves under the flower turn 



