
SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
each other, but sprinkled over a large space, recalling the 
little flowers in early Italian pictures. E. prmilis, of the 
Northwest and Utah, is much the same, with white rays. 
A large, handsome kind, abundant in 
the higher mountains and growing in 
moist places, as far east as Colorado. 
Large Mountain 
Fleabane 
Erigeron salsu- 
gindsus The stems are downy and leafy, from one 
Lilac to two feet tall, the leaves are smooth or 
Summer 
slightly hairy, with bristle-like points, 
and the flowers are an inch and a half or 
more across, with bright yellow centers and clear bright 
lilac rays, not very narrow. 
A little alpine plant, about three inches 
tall, with downy stems, thickish, gray- 
West, etc. 
Yellow Fleabane 
Erigeron aureus 
(Aplopappus green leaves, covered with close white 
Brandegei) down and forming a mat of foliage on the 
Yellow rocks at high altitudes. The flowers are 
Summer 
rather more than half an inch across, with 
a woolly involucre, dark yellow center, and 
deep yellow rays, an unusual color among Fleabanes. 
Very cheerful, sturdy-looking flowers, 
Wash., Oreg. 
Seaside Daisy, 
Hckch Actor with stout, hairy stems, four to ten inches 
Erigeron glaucus tall, and stiffish, slightly hairy leaves, 
Violet, pink rather pale in color. The handsome 
Spring, summer 
flowers are an inch and a half across, with 
Cal., Oreg. 
numerous violet, lilac, or pink rays and 
rather dark yellow centers. This grows near the sea and is 
common on cliffs and sandy shores, where it makes beauti- 
ful spots of bright color. 
A pretty perennial, from one to three 
delphia Fleabane feet tall, usually soft and hairy, the slender 
Eidos stems usually branching above and most 
Philadélphicus Of the leaves,toothed. The flowers usually 
Pink, mauve form a loose cluster at the top, the buds 
aya summer drooping, and the heads are from half an 
= inch to an inch across, with yellow centers 
and a very feathery fringe of pink or pinkish rays. This 
grows in fields and wcods. There is a picture in Mathews’ 
Field Book. LE. Coulteri, the large White Mountain Daisy, 
is a beautiful kind, from six to twenty inches tall, with 
bright green leaves, often toothed, sometimes downy, and 
the flowers usually single, an inch and a half across, 
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