. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST. 127 upward. The stalk grows about two feet liigh, and generally bears but one flower, orange-yellow out- side and vermilion inside, spotted with brown mad- der— hardly the purple color which Gray men- tions. The flower varies in hue, and is sometimes red-orange instead of ver- milion. It blooms about the Ist of July, in the thin woods, where the ground is more or less sandy. Blaok-eyed The black- Susan, eyed Susan, Budbeciia hirta. .-i i -i as the chil- dren call it. Gray says is a Western flower which was introduced into


. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST. 127 upward. The stalk grows about two feet liigh, and generally bears but one flower, orange-yellow out- side and vermilion inside, spotted with brown mad- der— hardly the purple color which Gray men- tions. The flower varies in hue, and is sometimes red-orange instead of ver- milion. It blooms about the Ist of July, in the thin woods, where the ground is more or less sandy. Blaok-eyed The black- Susan, eyed Susan, Budbeciia hirta. .-i i -i as the chil- dren call it. Gray says is a Western flower which was introduced into our Eastern meadows with clover seed. It is fre- quently called cone-flow- er by reason of the rather high cone-shaped center. Lilium Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Co


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