SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



cisco south. Yellow-spined Thistle, C. ochrocentrut, found 

 in Nevada and Arizona and as far east as Colorado, has 

 purple flowers and leaves deeply slashed and armed with 

 long yellow spines. This grows at the Grand Canyon. 



There are a good many kinds of Anaphalis, natives of the 

 north temperate zone, but only one in North America. 



This is the prettiest of the Everlastings, 

 Pearly Everlasting .. , J L .,, 



Anaphalis from one to three feet tall, with a leafy 



margaritacea stem, covered with white wool, and alter- 



White nate, toothless leaves, which are rather 



long and narrow, gray-green and more or 

 less woolly on the upper side, pale and 

 woolly on the under. The flower-heads are numerous, 

 forming close, roundish clusters. The heads are without 

 rays, but the tiny, yellow, tubular flowers are surrounded 

 by many small, white, papery bracts, resembling petals, 

 making the involucre the conspicuous feature and forming 

 a pretty little, round, white head. This is common in dry 

 places, East and West, and found in Asia. There is a 

 picture in Mathews' Field Book. Rosy Everlasting, 

 Antenndria rbsea, has the same general appearance, but 

 the bracts are pink, giving a pretty pink tint to the flower- 

 cluster, and is found in the Northwest at high altitudes. 

 Another kind of Everlasting is Gnaphalium microcephalum, 

 Cudweed, a mountain plant of the Northwest and Califor- 

 nia, with similar foliage, but with larger, looser clusters of 

 cream-white flowers, conspicuous at a distance, though 

 not pretty close by. There is a picture of a similar species 

 in Mathews' Field Book. 



There are several kinds of Encelia. 



A handsome, desert plant, with rough, 

 Encelia purplish stems, a foot and a half tall, dull- 



eriocephala green, hairy leaves, and flowers over an 



Yellow inch across, in loose clusters, with bright 



f pri ^. g golden-yellow rays, yellow centers, and 



ooutnwest ,, . , . 



woolly involucres. This makes fine 

 conspicuous clumps of bright color on the pale desert sand. 

 A conspicuous shrubby plant, from two 

 Brittle-bush ' ^ f ur ^ ee ^ high, with many stout, branch- 

 Endlia jarinbsa ing stems, grayish, downy twigs, and large 

 Yellow clumps of downy, gray-green leaves, 



from which spring the long, slender flower- 

 stalks, bearing loose clusters of handsome 



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