WYETHIA ARIZONICA. 

 ARIZONIAN WYETHIA. 



NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSITE. 



Wyethia ArizonicA, Gray. — One foot high, scabrous-hirsute; one to two flowered; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, very entire, superior ones sessile; heads small, involucre hemispherical, 

 scales oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, (those I have seen erect,) hirsute with short gray hair; 

 corolla teeth, somewhat hispid externally; ray florets about ten, (nearly an inch.) (Asa 

 Gray in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 8, p. 655.) 



|NE who Is familiar only with the wild plants of the 

 Eastern, or, rather, the Atlantic States of the Union, or 

 even with the vegetation of the Pacific coast, can have no idea 

 of the unique character of the forms he may meet with in the 

 interior portions of the continent. It seems to have a vege- 

 tation peculiar to itself He may now and then meet with 

 some familiar feature, but there are a large number that have 

 characters essentially novel, and, indeed, whole families that 

 are found in these wild places and nowhere else. This is 

 particularly the case with the vegetation of the mountain region 

 in Utah; for here a class of plants appears that have little relation 

 with the flora of the older settled States, and whose allies would 

 probably be found, if at all, in the warmer and dryer regions of 

 more southern countries. Even the scenery Itself Is peculiar, 

 and the very winds seem to tell of another land. The writer of 

 this, as he has stood among these wonderfully beautiful Utah 

 mountains and admired the curious flowers growing among 

 them, could well exclaim with Bryant : 



" Breezes of the South \ 

 Who toss the golden and the flame -like flowers. 



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