
SUNFLOWER FAMILY, Compositae. 
There are a good many kinds of Chaenactis, the flower- 
heads with tubular flowers only, but in some kinds the 
marginal flowers are larger and have a broad border re- 
sembling a kind of ray. 
A rather pretty plant, from eight inches 
ty Sy to over a foot tall and more or less downy, 
Doulésii with stiffish, gray-green, leaves, cut into 
White many short, blunt lobes and teeth. The 
Spring, summer fjower-heads are about an inch long, and 
nf Cal, New contain numerous small, pearly-white or 
‘ pinkish, tube-shaped flowers, with long, 
purplish pistils. This grows in dry open places, the flowers 
turn pink in fading and are sweet-smelling and quite 
pretty, though not striking. C. macrdéntha, which grows 
in the Grand Canyon, has similar flowers, rather prettier, 
with a somewhat sickly scent, but it is a lower plant. 
A charming desert plant, with several 
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downy stems, over a foot tall, springing 
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Yellow from a feathery cluster of pretty, bright 
Spring green, thickish leaves, cut into narrow 
California 
divisions, rather downy and often tinged 
with red. The flower-head is nearly an inch and a half 
across, without rays, but the marginal flowers in the head 
are larger and have broad borders that look like rays. 
They are a beautiful shade of clear bright yellow. 
This is very much like the last in size, 
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GT ay : form, and foliage and is equally charm- 
Freméntii ing, but the flowers are all pure white, or 
White pinkish, instead of yellow. It is one of 
Spring the most attractive of the white desert 
Southwest 
flowers. 
A charming little desert plant, with 
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pkey etn spreading stems and small, narrow, tooth- 
bellidoides less, gray bluish-green leaves, which are 
Lilac soft, but sprinkled with small, stiff, white 
Fecal bristles, the whole forming a rosette, five 
or six inches across, growing flat on the 
sand and ornamented with many pretty little flowers. 
They are each set off by a little rosette of leaves and are 
over half an inch across, with pinkish-lilac rays, shading 
to white towards the yellow center and tinted with bright 
purple on the back. : 
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