SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Composite. 



There are many kinds of Coreopsis, natives of America, 

 South Africa, and Australasia, several of them cultivated 

 in gardens. They are called Tickseed. 



Desert Coreopsis ThiS is Very prettV ' with ne f S6Vera1 ' 

 Coreopsis slender, smooth stems, about ten inches 



Bigelmvii tall, springing from a tuft of pretty, bright 



Yellow green, smooth, shiny leaves, cut into 



narrow divisions and slightly succulent. 



The flowers are an inch and a half to two 

 inches across, with bright yellow rays, lighter at the tips, 

 and an orange center, and look exceedingly pretty in the 

 Mohave Desert. 



Sea Dahlia A magnificent plant, forming large 



Coreopsis marit- clumps, two feet high, but not at all 

 ima (Leptosyne) coarse in character. The leaves are very 

 Yellow bright green, smooth and quite succulent, 



^JJf* . and cut into narrow lobes, so that the 



California _ . . 



effect is graceful and unusual looking. 



The superb flowers are often four inches across, with clear 

 light yellow rays and orange- yellow centers, and the lower 

 row of bracts stand out stiffly like a ruffle and are like the 

 leaves in texture and color, contrasting oddly with the 

 upper bracts, which are satiny in texture and almost as 

 yellow as the rays. These plants are conspicuously beauti- 

 ful on the sea cliffs near San Diego. 



A small evergreen shrub, about a foot 



r angusti- high ' Wlth Sm th ' H 2 ht dul1 S reen leaves 



folia var. w ^ n a ^ ew ^ ne teeth, and loose clusters 



latiuscula of rather pretty, bright yellow flowers, 



Yellow the heads about three-quarters of an inch 



? pr "! g long. This grows on rocky hillsides and is 



Southwest, New . _ . 

 Ifl ex . quite effective. 



There are a great many kinds of 

 Chrysanthemum, widely distributed in the northern 

 hemisphere. 



This is the well known common kind, a 



Ox-eye Daisy ge neral favorite, except with farmers, 



Chrysanthemum .. . . ' 



Leuc&nthemum naturalized from Europe and also found 



White in Asia; a perennial weed in pastures, 



Spring, summer, meadows, and waste places, more or less 



autumn ^ th United States, but much more 



Northwest, etc. . 



common in the Northeast. It grows from 



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