(A) Small White Aster (Aster vimineus) is still 
another of the tiny, white-flowered asters. It has a tall, 
branching stem from 2 to 5 feet high; the branches 
nearly all leave the main stalk in a horizontal position 
and the inflorescence is chiefly on one side of the flow¬ 
ering stems. It grows in moist soil from Me. to Minn, 
and southwards. 
(B) Starved Aster (Aster lateriflorus) is a much 
branched, slightly hairy species, common in thickets and 
fields from N. S. to Ontario and southwards. The leaves 
are lanceolate and taper to a point at each end. The ray 
florets are usually less in number than most of the 
other white species. 
Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron ramosus) is a common 
aster-like species found blooming in fields from June 
until October. The stem is rough-hairy and grows 1 or 
2 feet tall. The small, daisy-like flowers grow in a 
corymbed cluster at the top of the stem; they are about 
y 2 inch across, have quite a broad disc of tubular, yel¬ 
lowish florets and very numerous, narrow, ray florets; 
these rays range from 40 to 80 in number. 
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