SUNFLOWER FAMILY, Compositae. 
There are many kinds of Coreopsis, natives of America, 
South Africa, and Australasia, several of them cultivated 
in gardens. They are called Tickseed. 
Desert Coreopsis This is very pretty, with one or several, 
Ginebinais slender, smooth stems, about ten inches 
Bigelowii tall, springing from a tuft of pretty, bright 
Yellow green, smooth, shiny leaves, cut into 
Spring 
narrow divisions and slightly succulent. 
The flowers are an inch and a half to two 
inches across, with bright yellow rays, lighter at the tips, 
and an orange center, and look exceedingly pretty in the 
Mohave Desert. 
California 
20. ae A magnificent plant, forming large 
Boreipstr ere clumps, two feet high, but not at all 
ima (Leptosyne) Coarse in character. The leaves are very 
Yellow bright green, smooth and quite succulent, 
Sey and cut into narrow lobes, so that the 
California ; : 
effect is graceful and unusual looking. 
The superb flowers are often four inches across, with clear 
light yellow rays and orange-yellow centers, and the lower 
row of bracts stand out stiffly like a ruffle and are like the 
leaves in texture and color, contrasting oddly with the 
upper bracts, which are satiny in texture and almost as 
yellow as the rays. These plants are conspicuously beauti- 
ful on the sea cliffs near San Diego. 
A small evergreen shrub, about a foot 
iter ited X high, with smooth, light dull green leaves, 
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jolia =e with a few fine teeth, and loose clusters 
latitiscula of rather pretty, bright yellow flowers, 
Yellow the heads about three-quarters of an inch 
are hes. long. This grows on rocky hillsides and is 
Wics: quite effective. 
There are a great many kinds of 
Chrysanthemum, widely distributed in the northern 
hemisphere. 
This is the well known common kind, a 
Ox-eye Daisy = seneral favorite, except with farmers, 
Chrysénthemum : 
Leucénthemum  uaturalized from Europe and also found 
White in Asia; a perennial weed in pastures, 
Spring, summer, meadows, and waste places, more or less 
uaietc all over the United States, but much more 
Bor tiowetits oF; Comon ain. 4beitiorthess) ale grows from 
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