SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



There are a good many kinds of Chaenactis, the flower- 

 heads with tubular flowers only, but in some kinds the 

 marginal flowers are larger and have a broad border re- 

 sembling a kind of ray. 



A rather pretty plant, from eight inches 

 Chaenactis to oyer a oot tall and more Qr legs ^owny, 



Chaenactis ... iVa . , , 



Douglasii W1 stlffisn gray-green, leaves, cut into 



White many short, blunt lobes and teeth. The 



Spring, summer flower-heads are about an inch long, and 

 Utah, Cal., New con t am numerous small, pearly-white or 

 pinkish, tube-shaped flowers, with long, 

 purplish pistils. This grows in dry open places, the flowers 

 turn pink in fading and are sweet-smelling and quite 

 pretty, though not striking. C. macrdntha, which grows 

 in the Grand Canyon, has similar flowers, rather prettier, 

 with a somewhat sickly scent, but it is a lower plant. 



A charming desert plant, with several 

 Golden Girls , *, 



Chaenactis lanbsa downy stems, over a foot tall, springing 

 Yellow from a feathery cluster of pretty, bright 



Spring ^ green, thickish leaves, cut into narrow 



California divisions, rather downy and often tinged 



with red. The flower-head is nearly an inch and a half 

 across, without rays, but the marginal flowers in the head 

 are larger and have broad borders that look like rays. 

 They are a beautiful shade of clear bright yellow. 



This is very much like the last in size, 

 Morning Bride , ., . ,. , . M 1 



Chaenactis form, and foliage and is equally charm- 



Fremontii ing, but the flowers are all pure white, or 



White pinkish, instead of yellow. It is one of 



Spring the most attract j ve O f the white desert 



Southwest 



flowers. 



A charming little desert plant, with 

 Desert Star 

 Enmiastrum spreading stems and small, narrow, tooth- 



bettidoides less, gray bluish-green leaves, which are 



Mac soft, but sprinkled with small, stiff, white 



Spring bristles, the whole forming a rosette, five 



Arizona , _ , 



or six inches across, growing flat on the 



sand and ornamented with many pretty little flowers. 

 They are each set off by a little rosette of leaves and are 

 over half an inch across, with pinkish-lilac rays, shading 

 to white towards the yellow center and tinted with bright 

 purple on the back. 



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