2 20 BLUE TO PURPLE 



E. P/iiladc/phicns, or Lavender Fleabane, has a thick, finely 

 cut lavender fringe encirchng its yellow disk of tiny tubular 

 florets. The leaves are very clasping and toothed, and the 

 rays often number one hundred and twenty. 



E. luiifloriis, or Arctic Fleabane, is a very tiny dwarf plants 

 growing from one to six inches high, and found only on the 

 loftiest mountain summits. It has a single slender stem^ 

 which is clothed at the base by a small cluster of smooth- 

 margined hairy leaves ; a few little narrow leaves also grow 

 higher up. At the top is a solitary purplish flower. The 

 whole plant is very hairy and woolly. 



E. lajiatns, or Alpine Fleabane, is also a species which 

 grows at great elevations. It has both purple and white 

 flowers, and is covered with a soft, whitish, woolly coating. 



E. salsugifiosKs, or Large Purple Fleabane, is the king of 

 its tribe. It has very large and lovely purple flowers, with 

 big yellow disks and a few small, thick, smooth leaves cling- 

 ing to its stout downy stems. The rays number from fifty to 

 seventy, and the bracts of the involucre are narrow and 

 spreading. This particular Fleabane is quite unmistakable, 

 for it is much larger and handsomer than any of the other 

 mountain species, and makes the alpine meadows and slopes 

 quite gay during its flowering season, which is in the early 

 autumn. 



WAVY-LEAVED THISTLE 



Cniciis undnlatiis. Composite Family 



Persistently white-tomentose throughout. Stems: stout, leafy. Leaves: 

 lanceolate in outline, acute, sessile, undulate, lobed, the lobes dentate, 

 triangular, very prickly. Flowers: solitary at the ends of the branches. 



This reddish-purple Thistle grows from one to three feet 

 high and is a fine handsome plant with large long leaves, 

 whose edges are wavy and triangularly lobed, the lobes being 

 sharply toothed and very prickly. The big flower-heads grow- 



