SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
cisco south. Yellow-spined Thistle, C. ochrocéntrus, found 
in Nevada and Arizona and as far east as Colorado, has 
purple flowers and leaves deeply slashed and armed with 
long yellow spines. This grows at the Grand Canyon. 
There are a good many kinds of Anaphalis, natives of the 
north temperate zone, but only one in North America. 
This is the prettiest of the Everlastings, 
Pearly Everlastin E 
eee, ® from one to three feet tall, with a leafy 
margaritacea stem, covered with white wool, and alter- 
White nate, toothless leaves, which are rather 
Summer 
long and narrow, gray-green and more or 
less woolly on the upper side, pale and 
woolly on the under. The flower-heads are numerous, 
forming close, roundish clusters. The heads are without 
rays, but the tiny, yellow, tubular flowers are surrounded 
by many small, white, papery bracts, resembling petals, 
making the involucre the conspicuous feature and forming 
a pretty little, round, white head. This is common in dry 
places, East and West, and found in Asia. There is a 
picture in Mathews’ Field Book. Rosy Everlasting, 
Antennaria rosea, has the same general appearance, but 
the bracts are pink, giving a pretty pink tint to the flower- 
cluster, and is found in the Northwest at high altitudes, 
Another kind of Everlasting is Guaphdlium microcéphalum, 
Cudweed, a mountain plant of the Northwest and Califor- 
nia, with similar foliage, but with larger, looser clusters of 
cream-white flowers, conspicuous at a distance, though 
not pretty close by. There is a picture of a similar species 
in Mathews’ Field Book. 
There are several kinds of Encelia. : 
A handsome, desert plant, with rough, 
U. S., etc. 
Oe purplish stems, a foot and a half tall, dull- 
eriocé phala green, hairy leaves, and flowers over an 
Yellow inch across, in loose clusters, with bright 
Spring golden-yellow rays, yellow centers, and 
Southwest 
woolly involucres. This makes fine 
conspicuous clumps of bright color on the pale desert sand. 
Golden Hills, A conspicuous shrubby plant, from two 
Brittle-bush to four feet high, with many stout, branch- 
Encélia farindsa ing stems, grayish, downy twigs, and large 
Yellow clumps of downy, gray-green leaves, 
peed from which spring the long, slender flower- 
stalks, bearing loose clusters of handsome 
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