CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaceae. 



This is a straggling plant, from one to 

 Chicory, Blue . f 4 



Sailors three feet tall, a perennial, with a long % 



Cichdrium Intybus deep tap-root, stiff, branching stems, and 



Blue leaves irregularly slashed into toothed 



Summer, autumn lobeg and chiefl from the root> The 

 Northwest, etc. . . . 



pretty flowers are from an inch to an inch 



and a half across, much like those of Desert Chicory, but 

 very brilliant blue, occasionally white. This plant has 

 escaped from cultivation and is now very common in waste 

 places and along roadsides in the East and often found 

 in the West. The ground-up root is used as a substitute 

 for coffee. There is a picture in Mathews' Field Book. 



There are several kinds of Microseris, rather difficult to 

 distinguish. 



This is about a foot tall, with smooth, 

 Microseris hollow flower-stems, smooth leaves, and, 



linearifdlia rather small yellow flowers, not particu- 



Yellow larly pretty. The "gone-to-seed" flower- 



Spring heads are, however, very conspicuous, for 



Southwest, Nev. '. J , \, e 



they are nearly an inch and a half across, 



and each seed is tipped by a little silvery paper star, the 

 effect before the wind carries them away being exceedingly 

 pretty, a good deal like a Dandelion puff. This grows in 

 the Grand Canyon on the plateau. 



There are many kinds of Sonchus, natives of the Old 

 World. 



A common weed, from Europe, found 

 Sow Thistle 



Sdnchus oleraceus across the continent, coarse but decorative 

 Yellow in form, with a stout leafy stem, from one 



All seasons to four feet tail, and smooth leaves, with 



west, etc. some soft prickles on the edges, the upper 



ones clasping the stem and the lower ones with leaf-stalks. 

 The pale yellow flowers are three-quarters of an inch or 

 more across. 



There are several kinds of Taraxacum, natives of the 

 northern hemisphere and southern South America. 



This is a weed in all civilized parts of 



the world, growing in meadows, fields, and 

 Taraxacum _ , , . , 1 . 



Taraxacum waste places. It has a thick, deep, bitter 



Yellow root, a tuft of root-leaves, slashed into 



All seasons toothed lobes, and several hollow flower- 



U. S., etc. stalks, from two to eighteen inches tall, 



