. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 24:2 FAMILIAR FEATURES OP THE ROADSIt)E. Tins species, one of the most beautiful of all, is con- fined to the seacoast; its range is from Massachu- setts to Delaware. It grows from one to two feet high. The most familiar species of white asters are the following : 9. Aster paniculatus. White, panicled aster. Blooms about the middle of August. Leaves dark green, smooth or nearly so, broad lance-shaped, sharply toothed, the upper ones less conspicuously toothed. Stem stout and much- branched. Flower wh
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 24:2 FAMILIAR FEATURES OP THE ROADSIt)E. Tins species, one of the most beautiful of all, is con- fined to the seacoast; its range is from Massachu- setts to Delaware. It grows from one to two feet high. The most familiar species of white asters are the following : 9. Aster paniculatus. White, panicled aster. Blooms about the middle of August. Leaves dark green, smooth or nearly so, broad lance-shaped, sharply toothed, the upper ones less conspicuously toothed. Stem stout and much- branched. Flower white or very nearly so, about an inch "^ in diameter, crowded in flat clus- ters. A very tall species, from three to eight feet high, common on moist. Aster paDicuiatus. shaded banks. 10. Aster umiellatus. Tall, white aster. Blooms about the middle of August, and Southward earlier. Leaves long, lance - sliaped, smooth, taper-pointed and tapering at the base, gen- erally without teeth. Stem smooth, stout, leafy to the top. Flowers numerous, white, with but fle^u rays, the short green scales beneath rather close and obtuse; the clusters are flat-tqpj>ed. This species is. 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 Company
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