An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . it very flat inverselyegg-shaped or heart-shaped, its margins winged. Aigrette of several mi-nute scales, or one or two elongated to bristles. B. asteroides, 1-iIIer. (Fig. 1, pi. 178.) Aster-mke stout, blanching above, 2 to 8 ft. high. Ix>avcs lance-shaped, 2 to 5in. long. Heads, includitig the disk and rays, about 1 in. in diameter;rays pink, purple or wliite. Strongly resembles the asters. Moist soi
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . it very flat inverselyegg-shaped or heart-shaped, its margins winged. Aigrette of several mi-nute scales, or one or two elongated to bristles. B. asteroides, 1-iIIer. (Fig. 1, pi. 178.) Aster-mke stout, blanching above, 2 to 8 ft. high. Ix>avcs lance-shaped, 2 to 5in. long. Heads, includitig the disk and rays, about 1 in. in diameter;rays pink, purple or wliite. Strongly resembles the asters. Moist soil,southern part of our area. July-Sept. 13. SERICOCARPUS, herbs, with alternate .{-nerved leaves and heads of flowers withboth tubular and ray florets. Involucre nearly cylindric, its bracts mem-braneous, in several series, often with green tips. Receptacle inversely pyramidal. Aigrette of numennis flne bristles. Rayflowers white with pistils only; disk flowers yellow with both stamens andpistils. 1. S. llnifolius, (L.) (Fig. 2, pi. 178.) Sniootli, 1 to 2i ft. high, slender. Leaves linear. THISTLE FAMILY 651. Plate 176I. Solidago rugosa. 2. S. sempervircns. 3. S. serotina. 652 COMPOSITAE faintly 3-iierved. Heads with about 4 white rays and few tubular diskflowers, the heads in a spreading flat cluster. Dry soil, northern part ofour range. June-Sept. 2. S. asteroides, (L.) (Fig. 3, pi. 178.) Toothed White-topped Aster. Stem 1 to 2 ft. high, angled. Basal and lower leaves in-versely egg-shaped, toothed at margins, narrowed to long leaf-stalks, theupper leaves lance-shaped, scarcely toothed. Ray flowers about 4, woods, throughout our range. July-Sept. 14. ASTER, L. Herbs, with alternate leaves and witli flower heads in broad, flat ormore or less elongated clusters, the heads including both tubular (disk)and ray flowers, the latter in a single row. Involucre scales more or lessoverlapping, usually with
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