SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Composite. 



heads, about two inches long, have bright lilac-pink or 

 crimson flowers and more or less woolly involucres. This 

 grows in the hills and mountains of the Coast Ranges. 



Arizona Thistle A VGry strikin & and decorative plant, 



Ctirduus both in form and color, from two to six 



Arizdnicus feet tall, with a pale, branching, leafy stem, 



P ink covered with close, white down, springing 



Arizona' fr m a cluster of lar S e rc ot-leaves. The 



leaves are gray-green, covered with white 

 down, and show great beauty of design, being sharply and 

 symmetrically lobed and toothed, the margins armed with 

 long yellow prickles. The flower-heads are an inch and a 

 half long, with beautiful carmine and pale-pink flowers, 

 all with no tinge of purple, the vivid spots of color giving 

 a very brilliant effect in contrast with the pale foliage. 

 This grows in the Grand Canyon and is conspicuous along 

 the Berry trail, a little way below the rim. 

 Thigtle A very handsome and decorative plant, 



Cfrdutu canda- about three feet tall with spreading stems, 

 dissimus covered with white down, and dull-green 



Pink, crimson leaves, pale with down on the under side 



^ u , m < mer . and often covered with white down all 



California _.. 



over. I he handsome flower-heads are 



two inches or more long and have deep pink or crimson 

 flowers and very woolly involucres. 

 California Thistle A branching plant, from two to six feet 

 Carduus ta ^> verv l ea fy below, with very dark 



Calijornicus bluish-green leaves, with more or less 



White woolly down on the upper side and pale 



with matted down on the under side. The 



California 



flower-heads are nearly three inches across, 

 with cream-white or rarely purple flowers, and the bracts 

 are caught together with silky, cobwebby down. This is 

 common in the Sierra Nevada. 



Western Thistle . A St Ut plant ' tW r thre6 feet high 

 Carduus w i tn large prickly leaves, and more or less 



occidentals covered all over with cottony wool. The 



Red, purple flower-head is about two inches long, and 



nearly as wide, and is a ball of white, 

 cobwebby wool, pierced all over with 

 brown spines, and tipped with wine-colored flowers. This 

 is common on sandy hills, near the coast, from San Fran- 

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