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CONE FLOWER. 
Sun-flower, Coreopsis, Cone-flower, Tagweed, and Tansy, contain 
resinous properties. 
The beautiful Aster family, if not remarkable for any peculiarly 
useful qualities, contains many highly ornamental plants. Numerous 
species of these charming flowers belong to our Canadian flora • 
lingering with us 
“ When fairer flowers are all decayed,” 
brightening the waste places and banks of lakes and lonely streams 
with starry flowers of every hue and shade—white, pearly blue, 
and deep purple; while the Solidagoes (Aaron’s rod), are cele¬ 
brated for the valuable dyes that are yielded by their deep golden 
blossoms. But to return to the subject of our artist’s plate, the 
Cone Flower. 
The plant is from one to three feet in height, the stem simple, or 
branching, each branchlet terminating in a single head. The rays are 
of a deep orange colour, varying to yellow ; the leaves broadly lan¬ 
ceolate, sometimes once or twice lobed, partly clasping the rough, 
hairy stem, hoary and of a dull green, few and scattered. The 
scales of the chaffy disk are of a dark, shining purple, forming 
a somewhat depressed cone. This species, with a slenderer- 
stemmed variety, with rays of a golden yellow, are to be met 
with largely diffused over the Province. 
Many splendid species of the Cone Flower are to be found 
in the wide-spread prairies of the Western States, where their 
brilliant starry flowers are mingled with many a gay blossom known 
only to the wild Indian hunter, and the herb-seeking medicine men 
of the native tribes, who know their medicinal and healing qualities, 
if they are insensible to their outward beauties. 
