SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



This is handsome and conspicuous, with 

 a slender rou S h stalk about a fo t tall, 

 Gaiiiardia dul1 g reen > stiff i rather hairy leaves, 



pinnatifida mostly from the root, and beautiful 



Yellow flowers, an inch and a half across, with 



Arh^Col Tex g lden -y ellow ra ys, with three teeth, and 

 a center of shaded maroon and yellow, 

 which is very velvety and pretty and becomes an attractive, 

 purplish, fuzzy, round head when the rays drop off. This 

 grows on the plains. G. arisiata, found throughout the 

 West and as far east as Colorado, is an exceedingly hand- 

 some kind, sometimes over two feet tall, with beautiful 

 yellow flowers, sometimes measuring four inches across. 



^ .,, A pretty little desert plant, from four to 

 Arizona Gaiiiardia . , 



Gdillardia eight inches tall, with a slender, downy 



Arizdnica flower-stalk, springing from a cluster of 



Yellow roughish, light dull green leaves, more or 



** p f mg less hairy and bearing a single handsome 



flower, neany two inches across, with a 

 downy involucre and three-toothed rays of an unusual 

 and pretty shade of dull light yellow, finely veined with 

 brown on the back, surrounding a darker yellow, fuzzy 

 center. 



A neat little evergreen, shrubby plant, 

 Hymenathtrum onl Y about three inches high, with branch- 

 Hartwegi ing stems, clothed with small, narrow, 



Yellow dull green leaves, which look prickly but 



are actually not very stiff, though tipped 

 with tiny bristles. The flowers are three- 

 eighths of an inch across, very perfect in outline, with 

 bright yellow rays and deeper yellow centers, and the 

 whole effect, of a tiny shrub sprinkled with flowers, is quite 

 attractive, growing on very dry ground along the roadside. 

 The plant has a pronounced smell, which is not unpleasant. 

 This looks a good deal like an Aster, 

 Tall Purple Aster & branching plant f rom two to near ly 

 Machaeranthlra . . . . . , . 1 



incana (Aster) three feet hl g h Wlth grayish-green, 

 Purple slightly downy leaves, with very sharp 



Spring teeth. The flowers are an inch and a 



New^ex*' Utah ' half aCr SS> Wlth narrOW ' bri S ht violet 

 rays and bright yellow centers. This 



grows abundantly in valleys. 

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