SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Composltae. 



usually with pure white rays. This grows in Yosemite 

 meadows and similar mountain places, in Utah, California, 

 and Colorado. E. compositus is a little Alpine plant, 

 forming dense leafy mats, easily recognized by the broad 

 tips of the leaves being cut into lobes, usually three. The 

 flowers are an inch or more across, with violet or white 

 rays. This grows on the granite peaks around Yosemite, 

 and in other Alpine regions, as far east as Colorado. 

 Ptilonella A charming little desert plant, graceful 



Ptiloneiia scdbra and airy in character, with stiff, very 

 (BUpharipappus) slender> branching, roughish stems, about 

 Spring ten inches tall, and dull green leaves, very 



Oreg., Ida., rough to the touch, with the edges rolled 



Nev., Cal. back. The delicate little flowers are an inch 



across, with pure white rays, and with white centers, which 

 are specked with black and pink. This is common on the 

 mesas around Reno and looks much like some kinds of Madia. 



An odd little desert plant, only two or 

 Pertzia nbna three inches high, with stiff, smooth, dull 

 Pink bluish-green leaves, with prickly edges, 



Spring like holly leaves but not so stiff, and one 



Ariz., Tex. quite pretty, light purplish-pink flower, the 



head about an inch long, with purplish bracts. The effect 

 of the whole plant is of a little sprig stuck into the sand. 



Much like the last, but more common- 



Brown-foot , . . , _ 



Perlzia Wrlghtii P lace woiBiig, for the flowers are smaller 

 Pink and the plant much larger. It is about a 



Spring foot high and grows among rocks, and the 



Ariz., Tex. general effect of dull mauve is rather 



pretty, though not bright in color. The common name 

 alludes to the plant being covered with a mass of brown 

 hairs at the base. 



There are several kinds of Gutierrezia, all American. 



A bushy plant, resinous, smooth or 



Brown-weed nearly so, from six inches to two feet high, 

 Gutierrezia Sard- J . 



thrae (G with many stiff, upright branches and 



Euthamiae) alternate, toothless, narrow leaves, an inch 



Yellow or so long. The flowers hav yellow 



centers and sma11 y ellow ra y s ' Arming 

 clusters at the ends of the branches, and 

 though very smafl are so numerous as to make effective 

 clumps of bright color. This grows at the Grand Canyon, 

 and in dry rocky places, as far east as the Central States* 



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