. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. THE TALL MIDSUMMER WEEDS. ]99 low rays and its purple-brown " cone " are familiar to us all. But few of the flowers are left by mid- summer—they were in their prime in early July. It is not a tall plant—rarely a few stems stand two feet high. Our common garden sunflower {Helian- ihus anmius) is a near relative of Rudbekia. An alhed species often found on the roadsides of the North and East is Helianthus giganteus, a small flower with bright-yellow rays and a fairly good yellow center; this
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. THE TALL MIDSUMMER WEEDS. ]99 low rays and its purple-brown " cone " are familiar to us all. But few of the flowers are left by mid- summer—they were in their prime in early July. It is not a tall plant—rarely a few stems stand two feet high. Our common garden sunflower {Helian- ihus anmius) is a near relative of Rudbekia. An alhed species often found on the roadsides of the North and East is Helianthus giganteus, a small flower with bright-yellow rays and a fairly good yellow center; this prefers the shaded nooks and corners of fields and wood- lands. Not far from the sunflower, " '^' ^. perhaps in some moist spot near a passing brook, we may find we have come in contact with the troublesome weed named beggar-ticks {Bidens fron- dosa); wherever we have touched the plant our clothing is covered with its ex- ceedingly tenacious, two - pronged seed vessels. The insignificant flowers are Beggar-ticks, rayless, and rusty yellow in tone, and the leaves have from three to five divisions. This uncomfortable roadside weed is from two to six feet high; it blooms from June to October. Also in the wet ground there is every chance of finding (at least as far North as Pennsylvania and Connecticut) the budding stems of the tall sneeze-. 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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