CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaccae. 



towards the broad tips, and usually many flowers, an inch 

 or so across, with whitish rays. This is rather common on 

 dry hills in California and Oregon, blooming in summer and 

 autumn. A. Andersoni, of Yosemite, has toothless, grass- 

 like root-leaves and one beautiful flower, an inch across, 

 with purple rays. 



CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaceoe. 



A large family, of wide geographic distribution, re- 

 sembling the Sunflower Family and by some authors 

 included in it. They are herbs, rarely trees, almost always 

 with milky, acrid, or bitter juice; the leaves alternate or 

 from the root; the flowers small and crowded in heads, 

 with Involucres, the bracts in one or several rows; the 

 receptacle flat or flattish, sometimes naked or smooth, 

 sometimes scaly, pitted or honeycombed; the flowers all 

 perfect; the calyx- tube without pappus, or with pappus of 

 scales or bristles, sometimes feathery; the corollas not oi 

 two sorts, like those of the Sunflower Family, but all with 

 a strap-shaped border, usually five-toothed, and a short 

 or long tube; the anthers united into a tube around the 

 style, which is very slender and two-cleft ortwo-lobed; the 

 ovary one-celled and inferior, developing into an akene. 



There are several kinds of Ptiloria, of western and 

 central North America. 



In the desert this is a very strange- 



Flowering-straw lookin le lant f orming a sca nty, 



Ptiloria pauci- 



fldra (Stephano- straggling bush, about two feet high, with 

 meria rundnata) slender, brittle, gray stems, most of the 

 Pink leaves reduced to mere scales, and delicate, 



I?"? 8 * P ale pinkish-lilac flowers, less than half 



West, etc. . * 



an inch long. This grows on the plains, as 



far east as Texas, and is not always so leafless as in the 

 picture, which is that of a desert plant, but has some 

 coarsely-toothed leaves. 



T\ * TX u Much like the last, but not a queer- 



Desert Pink . 



Ptiloria Wrightii looking plant, with pale green fchage and 

 (Stephanomeria) larger, prettier flowers, three-quarters of 

 an inch long, giving the effect of tiny, 



Mcx P a ^ e P* 11 ^ carnat i ns This grows at the 

 Grand Canyon. 

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