SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Composltac. 



A handsome kind, forming a clump from 

 Heiidnthus two to ^ our ^ ee t n ^S n with several leafy, 



foscicultris rough stems and harsh, rather shiny leaves. 



Yellow The fine flowers measure four inches 



Spring across, with bright yellow rays, deeper 



Nev., Ariz., etc. -, / 



yellow centers, and bronze, rough, rather 



resinous involucres. This is common around Reno and 

 grows in dry mountain valleys as far east as Colorado. 



_ . _ A striking plant, quite handsome, with 



Hairy Golden 



Aster a hairy, pale, leafy stem, from six inches 



Chrys6psis villbso, to two feet tall, and gray-green, rather 

 Yellow velvety leaves, generally toothless. The 



flowers are an inch or more across, with 

 Arizona, etc. , . 



bright golden-yellow rays and centers or 



the same shade, growing singly, or in a more or less crowded 

 cluster at the top of the stalk. This is common in open 

 ground and dry hills, up to an altitude of ten thousand 

 feet, as far east as Alabama, and there are many varieties. 

 The Greek name means "golden aspect. " 



_, , A curious and pretty little desert plant. 



Velvet-rosette ... . 



Psathyrotes dnnua that looks as lf lfc were trying to protect 

 Yellow itself from cold rather than heat, as its 



Spring pretty foliage and stems seem all made of 



Southwest silvery, gray velvet, forming a symmetrical 



rosette, dotted with the small, rayless, yellow flower- 

 heads, like fuzzy buttons. The rosette is decorative in 

 form, about a foot across, spreading flat and close to the 

 ground, and is conspicuous on the bare sand of the desert. 

 Only one of the branches is given in the picture. 

 Easter Daisy, This is a charming and quaint little 



Ground Daisy plant, with close, downy rosettes of small, 

 Townsendia gray-green leaves and two or three, pretty, 



y S ^k Pa daisy-like flowers, all crowded together 



Spring dose to the ground. The flowers are over 



Ariz., New Mex. an inch across, with numerous, pale-pink 

 to Saskatchewan rays, deeper pink on the under side, and a 

 bright yellow center, and when they bloom in early spring, 

 on bare rocky soil, they are exceedingly attractive. 



There are a great many kinds of Erigeron, widely dis- 

 tributed, most abundant in the New World, easily con- 

 fused with Asters, but usually with numerous and finer 

 rays, so that the effect is more delicate. 

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