SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
heads, about two inches long, have bright lilac-pink or 
crimson flowers and more or less woolly involucres. This 
grows in the hills and mountains of the Coast Ranges. 
A very striking and decorative plant, 
pep E both in form and color, from two to six 
Arizonicus feet tall, with a pale, branching, leafy stem, 
Pink covered with close, white down, springing 
PEG from a cluster of large rcot-leaves. The 
leaves are gray-green, covered with white 
down, and show great beauty of design, being sharply and 
symmetrically lobed and toothed, the margins armed with 
long yellow prickles. The flower-heads are an inch and a 
half long, with beautiful carmine and pale-pink flowers, 
all with no tinge of purple, the vivid spots of color giving 
a very brilliant effect in contrast with the pale foliage. 
This grows in the Grand Canyon and is conspicuous along 
the Berry trail, a little way below the rim. 
: A very handsome and decorative plant, 
Thistle : : 
Carduus canda- bout three feet tall, with spreading stems, 
dissimus covered with white down, and dull-green 
Pink, crimson leaves, pale with down on the under side 
a and often covered with white down all 
California 
over. The handsome flower-heads are 
two inches or more long and have deep pink or crimson 
flowers and very woolly involucres. 
A branching plant, from two to six feet 
i ia Thistl i 
ne operat tall, very leafy below, with very dark 
Carduus ’ : 
Calijérnicus bluish-green leaves, with more or less 
White woolly down on the upper side and pale 
Spring = with matted down on the under side. The 
California 
flower-heads are nearly three inches across, 
with cream-white or rarely purple flowers, and the bracts 
are caught together with silky, cobwebby down. This is 
common in the Sierra Nevada. 
Western Thistle A stout plant, two or three feet high, 
Cardstes with large prickly leaves, and more or less 
occidentalis covered all over with cottony wool. The 
Red, purple flower-head is about two inches long, and 
Spring 
nearly as wide, and is a ball of white, 
cobwebby wool, pierced all over with 
brown spines, and tipped with wine-colored flowers. This 
is common on sandy hills, near the coast, from San Fran- 
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