. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. 'nO '^ COLORADO ASTER. PIiATE 177. ASTER COLORADOENSIS. (SUNFLOWER FAMILY.) Siems cluitered, low, rtsint;from a thut >tv»/, Itturs ob<n\tte or ipatulatr, tUrply tUntate mth Amtate tffth : hta<U tatjif. siniiW itt tkf iuminit J thf stemi : tHtvlutrrf nm-'tslinff 0/HuntfroHj cloiety imfirnatfi1, /i«» tanceotalf cittnfiouHil bracts; rays Humrrous, ^iiuielinirs as many as/itrly, ijl'ZZLING beyond compare are the Asters as a group of plants. There are so many species of tliem, and th
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. 'nO '^ COLORADO ASTER. PIiATE 177. ASTER COLORADOENSIS. (SUNFLOWER FAMILY.) Siems cluitered, low, rtsint;from a thut >tv»/, Itturs ob<n\tte or ipatulatr, tUrply tUntate mth Amtate tffth : hta<U tatjif. siniiW itt tkf iuminit J thf stemi : tHtvlutrrf nm-'tslinff 0/HuntfroHj cloiety imfirnatfi1, /i«» tanceotalf cittnfiouHil bracts; rays Humrrous, ^iiuielinirs as many as/itrly, ijl'ZZLING beyond compare are the Asters as a group of plants. There are so many species of tliem, and they vary so greatly, running into each otlier almost iiiextrical)l\, that to distingu . h even the connnon kinds is not always easy. Darwin says in the " Origiii of Species," that great .storehouse of significant facts in biology, that r. s]Kcies behinging to a dominant genus, that is, a genus of many species widely ;!. is a))t to produce many varieties. Haviiif.' -verconie all competitors, the mcinbers of a group have lei- nre to devote themselves to .stirimprovement. War at an end, the arts of peace activity. Variation increases, and Natural Se'ection fixes ai:d develops the . useful to the ph'iit. The Asters have themselves of tlij length and breadth of Norta America. The marshes of the coast know their dominion. Kvery field, grove, , copse is decked with their gay flowers in autumn. Even the bare, desolate cliffs of the great western mountains show their peculiar, !ow, Sioutrooted Asters. One of these is .ister , which grows at a hi^di elevation. The short, clustered stems bear each its larg'.', violet-rayed head. It is a handsome little plant, lowly but well able to take care of itself in its bleak i'i: i 't. ;l: ;tL PI,ATE 178. BUR CUCUiMBER. SICYOS ANGULATUS. (GOURD FAMILY.) ,*ci*. t/im/'ing t>t slfHitei,/irked teitdrils: 'faxvs attfUtaU. Iimg-fxholrd. (".frpir hratt^kaprt
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