SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



A handsome kind, forming a clump from 



two to four feet high ' with several lea fy, 

 fasdculdris rough stems and harsh, rather shiny leaves. 



Yellow The fine flowers measure four inches 



Spring ^ across, with bright yellow rays, deeper 



Wev., Ariz., et ye ^ ow cen ters, and bronze, rough, rather 

 resinous involucres. This is common around Reno and 

 grows in dry mountain valleys as far east as Colorado. 



A striking plant, quite handsome, with 

 A * t ^ a hairy, pale, leafy stem, from six inches 



Chrysdpsis villbsa to two feet tall, and gray-green, rather 

 Yellow velvety leaves, generally toothless. The 



Summer flowers are an inch or more across, with 



Arizona, etc. 1-1.11 n j 



bright golden-yellow rays and centers of 



the same shade, growing singly, or in a more or less crowded 

 cluster at the top of the stalk. This is common in open 

 ground and dry hills, up to an altitude of ten thousand 

 feet, as far east as Alabama, and there are many varieties. 

 The Greek name means "golden aspect. " 



A curious and pretty little desert plant, 

 Velvet-rosette .. .\_ 



Psathyrbtesdnnua that looks as lf * were tr ymg to P rotect 

 Yellow itself from cold rather than heat, as its 



Spring pretty foliage and stems seem all made of 



Southwest silvery, gray velvet, forming a symmetrical 



rosette, dotted with the small, rayless, yellow flower- 

 heads, like fuzzy buttons. The rosette is decorative in 

 form, about a foot across, spreading flat and close to the 

 ground, and is conspicuous on the bare sand of the desert. 

 Only one of the branches is given in the picture. 

 Easter Daisy, ^^ s * s a charming and quaint little 



Ground Daisy plant, with close, downy rosettes of small, 

 Townsendia gray-green leaves and two or three, pretty, 



exsc&pa daisy-like flowers, all crowded together 



S^ing close to t ^ ie g roun d- The flowers are over 



Ariz., New Mex. an inch across, with numerous, pale-pink 

 to Saskatchewan rays, deeper pink on the under side, and a 

 bright yellow center, and when they bloom in early spring, 

 on bare rocky soil, they are exceedingly attractive. 



There are a great many kinds of Erigeron, widely dis- 

 tributed, most abundant in the New World, easily con- 

 fused with Asters, but usually with numerous and finer 

 rays, so that the effect is more delicate. 

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