YELLOW DAISY. DOUGLAS COREOPSIS (Leptdsyne Dougldsii, 

 DC.). Flower heads showy, 1 to 1^ inches across, both disk 

 and ray florets, bright yellow, borne singly at the summit of a 

 naked stalk. Involucral bracts in 2 series, the inner 8 to 12, 

 erect and broad; the outer fewer, narrower, loose, and leaf- 

 like. Leaves mostly basal, divided into a few thread-like 

 divisions. An herbaceous annual, a few inches to a foot 

 high, blooming from March till summer on dry plains and foot- 

 hills, Southern California and eastward to Arizona. Rather 

 variable, being much reduced in size when growing amid 

 brush, while along the seashore leaves and stems are thickish, 

 and the flower heads larger. 



The Yellow Daisy was one of David Douglas's discoveries, 

 which accounts for his name being linked with it. It is a 

 flower of peculiar attractiveness because of the clear, sun- 

 shiny quality of its yellow. Its general appearance suggests a 

 garden Coreopsis, and some botanists, indeed, class it as 

 Coreopsis Douglasii. The characteristic feature of the genus 

 Leptosyne is the presence of a thickened ring (sometimes hairy) 

 around the tube of the disk corollas. This may be readily 

 seen under a pocket lens. 



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