MALACOTHRIX. Florets strap-shaped; leaves 

 basal. 



YELLOW DAISY. Disk florets yellow; coreop- 

 sis-like. 



SEA DAHLIA. Disk yellow; solitary and large; 

 fleshy leaved seaside plants. 



CALIFORNIA SAGE BRUSH. No rays, incon- 

 spicuous, clustered, nodding in panicled race- 

 mes. An aromatic shrub with finely dis- 

 sected leaves. 



GUM PLANT. Disk yellow; buds sticky with 

 a whitish gum. 



MULE EARS. Large, disk yellow; leaves of 

 upright habit. 



TAR WEED. Disk yellow, a dark red spot at 

 base of each ray ; opening at evening. Plants 

 sticky. 



PINCUSHION. Disk yellow, marginal florets 

 with a fan-like limb. 



SNEEZEWEED. With spherical disk, and in- 

 conspicuous drooping rays. 



DOUGLAS'S GROUNDSEL. Rays narrowish, 

 disk yellow, leaves white woolly. 



BRASS BUTTONS. Without rays, solitary. 

 Wet places. 



MANZANILLA. Without rays, disk egg-shaped. 

 A small plant with fragrance of apples. 



ERIOPHYLLUM. Ray florets with rather round- 

 ish limbs; in crowded flat-topped clus- 

 ters. 



CONE FLOWER. With a conspicuous brownish- 

 purple disk becoming conical hi age. 



SUNSHINE. Base and margins of involucre 

 white with hairs. A desert herb. 



WILD SUNFLOWER. Dark disk; a tall, rough, 

 branching annual. 



BAILEYA. Rays short, pale, and reflexed at 

 maturity. A desert annual. 



VENEGASIA. Showy, resembling a sunflower. 



STAR THISTLE. Small thistle-like heads of 

 tubular yellow disk florets; no rays. 



WESTERN DANDELION. Florets strap-shaped. 

 Leaves basal. 



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