SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



This is handsome and conspicuous, with 



a slender ' rou g h stalk about a foot tall 

 Goillirdi* dul1 S reen stiff > rather hairy leaves, 



pinnatifida mostly from the root, and beautiful 



Yellow flowers, an inch and a half across, with 



/V^ m r _ golden-yellow rays, with three teeth, and 



a center of shaded maroon and yellow, 

 which is very velvety and pretty and becomes an attractive, 

 purplish, fuzzy, round head when the rays drop off. This 

 grows on the plains. G. arist&ta, found throughout the 

 West and as far east as Colorado, is an exceedingly hand- 

 some kind, sometimes over two feet tall, with beautiful 

 yellow flowers, sometimes measuring four inches across. 



A pretty little desert plant, from four to 

 Arizona Gaillardia . , 



Gailttrdia ei g ht m ches tall, with a slender, downy 



Arizdnica flower-stalk, springing from a cluster of . 



Yellow roughish, light dull green leaves, more or 



f p ." ng less hairy and bearing a single handsome 



Arizona , . , 



flower, neany two inches across, with a 



downy involucre and three-toothed rays of an unusual 

 and pretty shade of dull light yellow, finely veined with 

 brown on the back, surrounding a darker yellow, fuzzy 

 center. 



A neat little evergreen, shrubby plant, 

 Hymenathtrum on ^ v about three inches high, with branch- 

 Hartwegi ing stems, clothed with small, narrow, 



Yellow dull green leaves, which look prickly but 



are actually not very stiff, though tipped 

 with tiny bristles. The flowers are three- 

 eighths of an inch across, very perfect in outline, with 

 bright yellow rays and deeper yellow centers, and the 

 whole effect, of a tiny shrub sprinkled with flowers, is quite 

 a ttractive, growing on very dry ground along the roadside. 

 The plant has a pronounced smell, which is not unpleasant. 



This looks a good deal like an Aster, 

 Tall Purple Aster a branching plant, from two to nearly 



Machaer anthlr a P 1 -,1 1 



intAna (Aster) three feet hl S h Wlth grayish-green, 

 Purple slightly downy leaves, with very sharp 



Spring teeth. The flowers are an inch and a 



Southwest, Utah, half across> w { t h narrow, bright violet 

 rays and bright yellow centers. This 

 grows abundantly in valleys. 



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