SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



it on land he knows at once that it will be good for even 

 dry farming, as the soil contains no salt or alkali. 



There are a good many kinds of Eriophyllum, common 

 and very variable, woolly plants. 



This is a handsome kind, in favorable 

 Woolly Yellow situations forming large conspicuous 

 ErTophyllum clumps, from one to two feet high, covered 

 lanatum with bright golden flowers, each over an 



Yellow inch across. The leaves are dull green on 



Spring, summer th gid but the under gide and th 



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buds and stems are all covered with fine 



white down. The leaves are variable in form, sometimes 

 neither lobed nor toothed, and sometimes cut into narrow 

 toothed divisions. This has a variety of forms and grows 

 on hillsides. 



This forms low tufts of pale gray dcwny 



Eriophyllum ... ,. ., .,, ,, , . . ^ 



Eriophyllum foliage, contrasting well with the bright 



caespitdsum var. yellow flower-heads, each about an inch 

 integrijdlium across. This grows around Yosemite and 



in other mountain places, as far east as 

 Northwest, etc. Wyoming, and has a variety of forms. 



This has small flowers, but it forms such 

 Golden Yarrow , , , 1 .. .1 cc . r ^t. 1 j 



Eriophyllum lar S e clum P s that tne effect of tne golden- 



coniertiflbrum yellow clusters is handsome and very 

 Yellow conspicuous, on dry hills and mountains 



Summer and a i on g roadsides in summer. It is 



woody below, from one to two feet high, 

 and the leaves are more or less woolly. The variety 

 discoideum has no rays. 



There are many kinds of Anthemis, natives of Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa. 



This little weed is common in waste 

 Mayweed, places and fields and along roadsides, 



Dog^e^nel' almost all over the world. It is a branch- 



Anthemis Cdtula ing annual, from one to two feet tall, with 

 White feathery light green foliage, cut into many 



Summe autumn long, narrow divisions, almost smooth, 



with a disagreeable smell and strong acrid 

 taste. The many daisy-like flowers have heads about an 

 inch across, with from ten to eighteen white rays and 

 convex yellow centers. There is a picture of this plant in 

 Mathews' Field Book. 



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