. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PURPLE CONE FLOWER Receptacle.—Oblong and in fruit cylindrical; chaff yellow-tipped. Pappus.—None or a minute crown-like border. A kenes.—Four-angled. Rudbeckia laciniata is one of the tall vigorous composites which brighten the tangle and adorn the roadsides in August. It often stands seven feet high, bearing a loose collection of long peduncled heads, with disks somewhat elongated. The bright-yellow rays droop a little, but the general effect of the flower-head is th
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PURPLE CONE FLOWER Receptacle.—Oblong and in fruit cylindrical; chaff yellow-tipped. Pappus.—None or a minute crown-like border. A kenes.—Four-angled. Rudbeckia laciniata is one of the tall vigorous composites which brighten the tangle and adorn the roadsides in August. It often stands seven feet high, bearing a loose collection of long peduncled heads, with disks somewhat elongated. The bright-yellow rays droop a little, but the general effect of the flower-head is that of a sunflower. The garden favorite, Golden Glow, is a full double form of Rud- beckia laciniata which has been cultivated since 1896; but whence it came or how it was developed seems to be quite unknown. It was "found" among a collection of plants. PURPLE CONE FLOWER Echinacea purpArea. Echinacea, Greek, hedgehog; referring to the receptacle with its sharp, pointed chaff. Stem.—Usually smooth, usually two or three feet high, from a thick, black, pun- gent-tasting root. Leaves.—Chiefly alternate, three to five- ribbed, veiny, ovate or lanceolate, dentate- serrate; lower leaves with long-margined petioles. Flowers.—Radiate; rays dull rose-purple; rather persistent, long, drooping, pistillate but sterile; disk-florets brownish-purple. Involucre.—Of several rows of bracts, with spreading and pointed tips. Receptacle.—Convex or conical. Chaff.—Rigid, spiny - tipped, persistent, longer than the disk-florets. Akenes.—^Thick and short, four-sided, with a toothed border for pappus. 463. Purple Cone Flower. Echinacea purpurea. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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