SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
usually with pure white rays. This grows in Yosemite 
meadows and similar mountain places, in Utah, California, 
and Colorado. EF. compésitus is a little Alpine plant, 
forming dense leafy mats, easily recognized by the broad 
tips of the leaves being cut into lobes, usually three. The 
flowers are an inch or more across, with violet or white 
trays. This grows on the granite peaks around Yosemite, 
and in other Alpine regions, as far east as Colorado. 
Ptilonella A charming little desert plant, graceful 
Ptilonélla scdbra and airy in character, with stiff, very 
hea pus) slender, branching, roughish stems, about 
ten inches tall, and dull green leaves, very 
Spring 
Oreg., Ida., rough to the touch, with the edges rolled 
Nev., Cal. back. The delicate little flowers are an inch 
across, with pure white rays, and with white centers, which 
are specked with black and pink. This is common on the 
mesas around Renoand looks much like some kinds of Madia. 
An odd little desert plant, only two or 
D t Holl : " i i 
emg Wed three inches high, with stiff, smooth, dull 
Perézia nana 
Pink bluish-green leaves, with prickly edges, 
Spring like holly leaves but not so stiff, and one 
Ariz., Tex. 
quite pretty, light purplish-pink flower, the 
head about an inch long, with purplish bracts. The effect 
of the whole plant is of a little sprig stuck into the sand. 
Much like the last, but more common- 
Brown-foot : 
Pertzia Wrightii Place looking, for the flowers are smaller 
Pink and the plant much larger. It is about a 
Spring foot high and grows among rocks, and the 
== general effect of dull mauve is rather 
pretty, though not bright in color. The common name 
alludes to the plant being covered with a mass of brown 
hairs at the base. 
There are several kinds of Gutierrezia, all American. 
A’ bushy plant, resinous, smooth or 
Brown-weed nearly so, from six inches to two feet high, 
Gutierrézia Saro- 
ibeae (G. with many stiff, upright branches and 
Euthamiae)- alternate, toothless, narrow leaves, an inch 
Yellow or so long. The flowers have yellow 
Summer, autumn 
‘wr dak icie: centers and small yellow rays, forming 
clusters at the ends of the branches, and 
though very small are so numerous as to make effective 
clumps of bright color. This grows at the Grand Canyon, 
and in dry rocky places, as far east as the Central States. 

