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BROWN-EYED SUSAN 



Gaillardia aristata. Composite Family- 

 Stems: simple, or little branched, hirsute with jointed hairs. Leaves: 

 firm, densely pubescent, the lower and basal ones petioled, oblong, lacin- 

 iate, pinnatifid or entire ; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, entire or den- 

 tate. Flowers: large-peduncled, heads of tubular and radiate flowers; 

 rays cuneate, three-toothed ; bracts of the involucre hirsute. 



A gorgeous radiant blossom, with numerous bright golden 

 rays, which are three-lobed at the apex, and having also a 

 big, fringed, globose, reddish-brown centre, composed of 

 many minute disk-flowers. The leaves are coarse, the larger 

 ones being toothed half-way in the middle. 



There are meadows in the mountains rendered more 

 beautiful than any others by reason of these great showy 

 Gaillardias. 



Gaillardia Land ! It lies far from the busy marts of men. 

 Blue heavens above, and golden flowers about your feet, and 

 all the world full of a very abandon of colour. Here 



" A thousand odours rise, 

 Breathed up from blossoms of a thousand dyes." 



Ways of peace lead over the fields of rest, and whosoever 



wane 



way. 



wanders therein finds food for dreams, and gladness all the 



" Blue of a burning, boundless sky. 

 Gold of a boundless, splendid sod; 

 Prodigal noontide, far and nigh. 



Blue and gold on the plains of God." 



HEART-LEAVED ARNICA 



Arnica cordifolia. Composite Family 



Stems: simple, or sparingly branched. Leaves: basal and lower ones 

 ovate, obtuse and deeply cordate at the base, dentate ; stem-leaves in 

 pairs, ovate, sessile, small. Flowers: large long-peduncled heads of 



