. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. •^ ASTKR. PLATE 133- asti:r i'athns. (SUNFLOWER FAMILY.^ ntfnniaK rnitgh-pubf^CfHt; sUm spmenhtit httItU, fmt, uitltly imtmhinii ; n'ot-Untft mvl'-. not otritttU ; ilfm-lfavfs rJaifilng by il hfoitihaf^tt basf, oblng-i'i^ili\ yiually Matt&u-tJ in the mttidlf, mn- i^JHiite, lathfr titifk ; heads long-fietiuHiled, racemtutty amnged oh the upper side of the hiandtes: trnvlmere much imtiiiciiteit. hracts gteen tippe^t; rays ihouy, v:olet. V, are told by hermit of of
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. •^ ASTKR. PLATE 133- asti:r i'athns. (SUNFLOWER FAMILY.^ ntfnniaK rnitgh-pubf^CfHt; sUm spmenhtit httItU, fmt, uitltly imtmhinii ; n'ot-Untft mvl'-. not otritttU ; ilfm-lfavfs rJaifilng by il hfoitihaf^tt basf, oblng-i'i^ili\ yiually Matt&u-tJ in the mttidlf, mn- i^JHiite, lathfr titifk ; heads long-fietiuHiled, racemtutty amnged oh the upper side of the hiandtes: trnvlmere much imtiiiciiteit. hracts gteen tippe^t; rays ihouy, v:olet. V, are told by hermit of of tlie part the asters and goldeii-rods play in the eooiioniy of the insi^ct world, when fading snmmer carries witli her one by one the flowers whereon the tiny, win^;e(l lK)tanists depend for snstenancc. On the last day of Septenil)er, " By the roadside at WaUlen, on ihe sunny hillside sloping to the pond, we saw a large mass of golden-rod and aster, s>."\cral rods square and comparatively fresh. Getting out of our wagon, we lound it to be resounding with the hum of bees. It was about one o'cliK-k. Here were far nu/re flowers than we had seen elsewhere, and l)ees in great numbers, lK)th bumblebees and honey-bees, as well as butterllies, wasps and ; There is no handsomer aster than the Spreading Aster. Others have finer foliage, glossier and more shapely leaves, but none excel it in beauty of flowers. The head, yellow centered with its Uirder of deep violet rays, is like a cheery rouiul face in a fringed night-cap, .smiling and happy. A more regal color than that of these ray flowers of aster patens, twould be hard to find. It is almost precisely the shade of rich purple- blue that belongs to our connnon Klue tM ! YFLLOW FOX-GLOVF. PLATE 134- DASYSTOMA (GHRARDIA) QUFRCIFOLIA. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) Stfm ftfct. branchtHg glabfous unit mote ut less g/nut.' /rates ai'termttr. o.'ntf oblong in onthnf, f'tmuttifid. thf Hpf>t»moit alntoit enttte; /fou
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