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names are Leptosyne Douglasii, DC., and Senecio Calif ornicus, DC. 

 The Leptosyne has a long, leafless flower stem and a double involucre, 

 a few linear bracts forming the outer circle, the inner consisting of 

 broader, overlapping bracts. The genus Senecio is commonly known 

 as the groundsel; this species has a leafy stem and the akenes have 

 always a capillary pappus. The most common of all the early daisy- 

 like Compositse, the fragrant one that literally carpets hundreds of 

 acres, is Bczria gracilis; it is sometimes called fly flower, sometimes 

 sunshine or golden fields. The grass family will not come regularly 

 till Chapter XIII, but the children can be led to discover before this 

 the fact that grasses have flowers, and can become acquainted with at 

 least the wild oats, wild barley or fox-tail, and if it is common in 

 their vicinity the Bermuda grass. The so-called blue-eyed grass, 

 Sisyrinchium helium, Wats., see Fig. 6; also Fig. 2, No. 2 is, of 

 course, not a grass at all, but its pretty blue flowers should be noted 

 and named. 



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