
SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
There are a good many kinds of Helenium, natives of 
North and Central America. 
A handsome plant, with a roughish stem, 
Sneeze-weed 
from two to four feet tall, and tocthless, 
Helénium 
Bigelowii rather coarse leaves, rougher on the under- 
Yellow side, the lower part of the leaf grown to the 
Summer, autumn 
Cal., Oreg. stem along its middle ina curious way. The 
flowers are from an inch and a half to two 
inches across, with bright golden-yellow rays and a rich- 
brown center, powdered with yellow pollen, and the bud- 
ding flower heads look like brown buttons. This grows in 
meadows and along streams, at moderate altitudes, and is 
found in Yosemite. 
Hymenopéppus A pretty and rather unusual-looking 
liteus plant, with a cluster of root-leaves, gray- 
Yellow green and downy, cut into many fine 
Summer 
Ariz., New Mex., ‘visions, and slender stems, about a foot 
Col., Utah tall, with two or three, narrow, alternate, 
toothless leaves, and bearing at the top a few pretty, 
bright yellow flower-heads, nearly an inch across, with 
tube-shaped flowers only. This grows in dry, open places. 
There are many kinds of Madia, sticky, heavy-scented 
herbs, commonly called Tarweed and called Madi in Chili. 
They are used medicinally by Spanish-Californians. 
ee) Se Te Pretty flowers, with hairy stems, from 
Toren six inches to three feet tall, and velvety or 
Madia élegans hairy leaves, more or less sticky and the 
Yellow upper ones alternate. The flowers grow 
Summer, autumn in joose clusters and are from one to over 
West : : : 
two inches across, with bright yellow rays, 
sometimes with a spot of maroon at the base which gives 
an extremely pretty effect, and a yellow or maroon center. 
This often makes pretty patches of color in sandy places, 
and is widely distributed and very variable. Woodland 
Madia, M. madioides, is similar, but not so pretty. 
A slender plant, over a foot tall, with 
Gum-weed : 1 : 5 
Madia dissitifiora airy. stem and leaves, which are aromatic 
Yellow when crushed, and rather pretty little 
Summer flowers, about half an inch across, with 
California 
pale yellow rays, yellow centers specked 
with black, and sticky-hairy involucres. This grows along 
roadsides and the edges of woods. 
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