. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. I s^^ PI,ATE 149. ECHINACHA ( l-AMILY.) S/fm simple, etrft from a thick, tatkfi .â nAA(i. stah. tilati riMtt, Moil \ Irafy bfltt;^- l,t]:ri l,mi;/vtiolfl, UiHienliitf. iti hU at hiilh finis, fr'.ir, nilk Ihifi' fiiiimiUf'Mt »fn*t: A(ii(/t at thr lalht-i fiitulosi nakfii iummiti oj tht ittmi . lays latkfi mtnutou^. pmk. muih eitfiiiing the imfiiuatfj im\'lHtif. ||VK the bright oraiigf-color rays of the iimimoii Conc-tlowtT or "
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. I s^^ PI,ATE 149. ECHINACHA ( l-AMILY.) S/fm simple, etrft from a thick, tatkfi .â nAA(i. stah. tilati riMtt, Moil \ Irafy bfltt;^- l,t]:ri l,mi;/vtiolfl, UiHienliitf. iti hU at hiilh finis, fr'.ir, nilk Ihifi' fiiiimiUf'Mt »fn*t: A(ii(/t at thr lalht-i fiitulosi nakfii iummiti oj tht ittmi . lays latkfi mtnutou^. pmk. muih eitfiiiing the imfiiuatfj im\'lHtif. ||VK the bright oraiigf-color rays of the iimimoii Conc-tlowtT or " Susan " with rose, adding just a suspicion of purple, auJ you have the Purple Coue-tlower, or u very k(X)(1 iiuitaliou of it. I,ess hairy are the stem and leaves of the I-A'liiuacen, the disk a less intense and lighter hrown hut otherwise the resemblance to Rudl)eekia Ilirta is close. It is one of the handsomest of the Suntlower Family. As a rule these plants are more noticeable for showiness of flowers than for elegance of form. The Purple Coik tlnwer is to a certain extent an excepticm. Rigidly upright as are its stems, tliere is something of grace in their jxirt, undefiuable but apparent. Still more beautiful is its sister-si)ecies. ICchiuacea Purpurea. This has Itroader leaves and is less stiff: it is less hoary and of a brighter green. Echin.'icfa Augustifolia is prolK-rly a ])rairie ]ilant. ranging (rum our We-tern prairies to the glades of Middle Tennessee, and thence to the South and West, blossoming in early summer. It often grows with the conunoii Cone-flower, contrasting with the vivid yellow and black of its TOOTHWORT. PLATE 150. DHNTARIA (CRESS FAMILY.) PrienHial; item ei-eit from a long. hoiitoHlat, toothed lositstocit, smooth, umhiaH,~heii; leairs fitHiiatelr trifoliotate, the lajital on irrv lomg, the lantiHe, two, opposite, on shoit petioles: leaflets oiHlte or obloni;, weitge-shapeJ at hiise, shaipis toothed, Itotoeis longpeditell
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