SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



heads, about two inches long, have bright lilac-pink oi 

 crimson flowers and more or less woolly involucres. This 

 grows in the hills and mountains of the Coast Ranges. 



A very striking and decorative plant, 

 Arizona Thistle , J , . ; 

 Ctirduus both in form and color, from two to six 



Arizonicus feet tall, with a pale, branching, leafy stem, 



Pink covered with close, white down, springing 



Summer from a c i uster o f i arge root-leaves. The 



Arizona . . , , . 



leaves are gray-green, covered with white 



down, and show great beauty of design, being sharply and 

 symmetrically lobed and toothed, the margins armed with 

 long yellow prickles. The flower-heads are an inch and a 

 half long, with beautiful carmine and pale-pink flowers, 

 all with no tinge of purple, the vivid spots of color giving 

 a very brilliant effect in contrast with the pale foliage. 

 This grows in the Grand Canyon and is conspicuous along 

 the Berry trail, a little way below the rim. 



. A very handsome and decorative plant, 



C&rdu*s canda- about three feet tall, with spreading stems, 

 dissimus covered with white down, and dull-green 



Pink, crimson leaves, pale with down on the under side 

 Summer an( j o f ten COV ered with white down all 



over. The handsome flower-heads are 

 two inches or more long and have deep pink or crimson 

 flowers and very woolly involucres. 



m... , A branching plant, from two to six feet 

 California Thistle X11 , r i. 1 1 



Carduus ta ^ very leafy below, with very dark 



Calijomicus bluish-green leaves, with more or less 



White woolly down on the upper side and pale 



Spring ^ with matted down on the under side. The 



California 



flower-heads are nearly three inches across, 



with cream-white or rarely purple flowers, and the bracts 

 are caught together with silky, cobwebby down. This is 

 qomrnon in the Sierra Nevada. 



OM-- A stout plant, two or three feet high, 

 Western Thistle 

 C&rduus with large prickly leaves, and more or less 



occident&lis covered all over with cottony wool. The 



Red, purple flower-head is about two inches long, and 



pnn s nearly as wide, and is a ball of white, 



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cobwebby wool, pierced all over with 



brown spines, and tipped with wine-colored flowers. This 



is common on sandy hills, near the coast, from San Fran- 



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