. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . light is broken into shaded spots. Itflourishes in scattered communities, and blooming asit does, from April through June, it is not likely to beconfused with any of the later-flowering Asters, whichit strongly suggests. One can tell this species from anAster by its hairy surface, and also by the rosette ofbasal leaves — noticeable characteristics which theAsters do not possess. It is a perennial, and may befound in the same locality year
. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . light is broken into shaded spots. Itflourishes in scattered communities, and blooming asit does, from April through June, it is not likely to beconfused with any of the later-flowering Asters, whichit strongly suggests. One can tell this species from anAster by its hairy surface, and also by the rosette ofbasal leaves — noticeable characteristics which theAsters do not possess. It is a perennial, and may befound in the same locality year after year, where itincreases by stolens and offsets. The singular, hairy,light green stalk is thick and juicy, and rises from ten totwenty inches high, from a rosette of leaves. It ishollow, grooved and sparingly leafy. The flowersare rather large and pleasing, and several of them areborne in a terminal flat-topped cluster. They areDaisy-like in design, with a bright yellow centre ofmany small disc florets, surrounded with a finely cutfringe of ray flowers of a light bluish purple. Thelatter colour varies greatly, and oft§n it is faded white. 384. PURPLE STEM ASTER. A ter puniceus M J ^^^^^L ^A. • \ fc^p-^ ^^H^^^^^^^^^^^l K^^ 1 ^ ?SM^^^R 1 p^t^Sk^C^I f- ^^^?u^^^^S^H^j^^^^^b^ ^3^^^l CHICORY. BLUE SyULORS. Cichorium Intybus WILD FLOWERS blue and purple They are set in a green cup. The long, narrow andpartly clasping leaf is hairy, and tapers toward thepoint. The midrib is prominent, and shows a lightershade than the leaf. The margin is entire, and spar-ingly notched. They are arranged alternately, and soinfrequent as to give the stem a generally naked appear-ance. The basal leaves are tufted and narrow intoshort, margined peticles or stems. Erigeron is Greek,signifying old man in the spring, alluding to thewhitish hairs with which the plant is the long stalk looks stiff and is erect, theflowers have a certain refinedness that is becoming andgraceful. The speci
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