SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Composltae. 



There are many kinds of Coreopsis, natives of America, 

 South Africa, and Australasia, several of them cultivated 

 in gardens. They are called Tickseed. 



This is very pretty, with one or several, 

 Desert Coreopsis 



Coredpsis slender, smooth stems, about ten inches 



Bigelowii tall, springing from a tuft of pretty, bright 



Yellow green, smooth, shiny leaves, cut into 



S 1 "??* . narrow divisions and slightly succulent. 



California 



The flowers are an inch and a half to two 



inches across, with bright yellow rays, lighter at the tips, 

 and an orange center, and look exceedingly pretty in the 

 Mohave Desert. 



A magnificent plant, forming large 



Coreopsis marlt- clum P s two feet m 'g h . but not at a11 



ima (Leptosyne) coarse in character. The leaves are very 

 Yellow bright green, smooth and quite succulent, 



and cut into narrow lobes, so that the 

 effect is graceful and unusual looking. 

 The superb flowers are often four inches across, with clear 

 light yellow rays and orange-yellow centers, and the lower 

 row of bracts stand out stiffly like a ruffle and are like the 

 leaves in texture and color, contrasting oddly with the 

 upper bracts, which are satiny in texture and almost as 

 yellow as the rays. These plants are conspicuously beauti- 

 ful on the sea cliffs near San Diego. 



A small evergreen shrub, about a foot 



Tnxis high, with smooth, light dull green leaves. 



Trixis angusti- * ' . _ , * 



folia var with a few fine teeth, and loose clusters 



latiuscula of rather pretty, bright yellow flowers, 



Yellow the heads about three-quarters of an inch 



sprmg long. This grows on rocky hillsides and is 



Southwest, New * _ * 



l ex quite effective. 



There are a great many kinds of 

 Chrysanthemum, widely distributed in the northern 

 hemisphere. 



This is the well known common kind, a 

 Ox-eye Daisy general favorite, except with farmers, 

 Chrysanthemum ,.-,, --> iir 1 



leucdnthemum naturalized from Europe and also found 



White in Asia; a perennial weed in pastures, 



Spring, summer, meadows, and waste places, more or less 



autumn a ^ over the United States, but much more 



common in the Northeast. It grows from 



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