WHITE DAISY (Layia glandulosa, H. & A.). Flower heads 

 very showy, 2 inches or so in diameter, with rays of pure, clear 

 white, the disk yellow; terminating the branches. Leaves 

 narrow, without footstalks, grayish green, rough-hairy and 

 somewhat sticky, especially above, from the presence of little, 

 blackish, stalked glands. Blooming from April till June, 

 common from Southern California to British Columbia, and 

 eastward to Idaho and New Mexico. A usually much- 

 branched, roughish plant from a few inches to 2 feet high, 

 affecting sandy soil. 



This lovely Layia deserves a more distinctive common 

 name than White Daisy, which is rather inept. As the botan- 

 ical name for the genus is easy of pronunciation and euphoni- 

 ous, it would be well enough to call the plant White Layia. 

 Layia, by the way, is in memory of G. Tradescant Lay, nat- 

 uralist of the Beechey Exploring Expedition which visited 

 the Pacific Coast in 1827. The plant is not entirely constant 

 in the whiteness of its rays. Sometimes these are rose-purple. 

 In fact, specimens have been collected with both white rays 

 and purple on the same plant. The San Diego Indians used 

 the seeds for food. 



