SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
the Aster group and by some authorities regarded as 
Asters. 
Xylorrhiza A handsome plant, growing in clumps 
Xylorrhiza over two feet high, with prickly leaves and 
meee beautiful flowers, two inches and a half 
Spring across, with rays shading from bright 
Southwest, lilac to nearly white and yellow centers. 
Utah, Col. This is common in the Grand Canyon. 
There are a good many kinds of Arnica, natives cf the 
northern hemisphere. This is the ancient name and a 
European kind is much used medicinally. 
A handsome mountain flower, with a 
Heart-leaved ; a 
Pere hairy stem, from six inches to two feet 
‘Arnica cordifolia tall, and velvety leaves, coarsely toothed, 
Yellow the lower ones usually heart-shaped. The 
Sess ._ flower-heads are usually single, over two 
West, except Ariz.. 3 : 
inches across, with bright yellow rays, an 
orange center, and a hairy involucre. This is common in 
rich moist soil in mountain valleys, as far east as Colorado. 
A handsome kind, sometimes a foot 
Broad-leaved j 
rare and a half tall, with pretty flowers, about 
Arnica latifolia | two inches across, with very bright yellow 
Yellow .rays. The bright green leaves are thin in 
mages i texture and practically smooth, the lower 
Northwest : ¥ 
ones more or less roundish, with leaf 
stalks. This grows in mountain woods. 
There are many kinds of Artemisia; herbs or shrubs, 
usually bitter and aromatic, widely distributed. 
This is the characteristic sort, often 
Common Sage- immensely abundant and found as far east 
brush ori 
ted as Colorado, often tinting the landscape 
tridentata for miles with its pale and beautiful 
Yellow foliage and one of the dominant shrubs in 
ha ape autumn the Great Basin. It is very branching, 
sep from one to twelve feet high, with a dis- 
tinct trunk and shreddy bark, and the twigs and alternate 
leaves are all gray-green, covered with silvery down, the 
upper leaves small and toothless, the lower wedge-shaped, 
with usually three, blunt teeth. The small yellow flowers 
have no rays and grow in small, close clusters, forming long 
sprays towards the ends of the branches. Sagebrush is a 
‘soil indicator’? and when the prospective rancher finds 
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