
290 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 
is rather a fickle-minded plant and grows equally well in dry 
or moist soil, sometimes even venturing upon the roadsides. 
Wherever we find it, however, it is always welcome. | 
C.. rosea is the rose-coloured tick-seed that is sometimes 
found in sandy swamps. It grows from six inches to two feet 
high, and it is very pretty. 
ROBIN’S OR POOR ROBIN’S PLANTAIN. (Plate CXL/X.) 
Erigeron pulchéllus. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. Light violet. Scentless. General. May, June. 
Flower-heads : round, growing in small clusters and composed of both ray 
and disk flowers ; the former being very numerous. Leaves; few on the stem ; 
lanceolate ; the basal leaves broader and clinging closely to the ground. Stem: 
about one foot high ; thick, juicy; hairy. 
What strange idea filled the pretty head of robin’s plantain 
when it decked itself out to look so much like an aster we donot 
know ; but its deception is very transparent and we readily 
discover that it is not one of the asterfamily. There is a hairy 
look about the stem and flower which is quite unlike an aster, 
and another distinctive feature is the way in which its lower 
leaves lie flat about the ground. 
Perhaps by its advent so early in the season it simply wishes 
to proclaim the coming of the true asters and the members of 
the great family of composites. 
LARGER DAISY FLEABANE. SWEET SCABIOUS. 
Erigeron dunuus. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. White or purplish. Scentless. General. June. 
Flower-heads: small, about three quarters of an inch broad; clustered and 
composed of both ray and disk flowers. Zeaves: lanceolate; the lower ones 
serrated. Stem: three to five feet high; branched; hairy. 
We all know the fleabanes, or little daisies, that spring up in 
the meadows and along the roadsides in summer and which 
look so pretty in the bunch of purple asters and golden rods 
that we carry home as an effective decoration for some se- 
cluded corner. 
