SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
Venegasia These big, leafy plants, with their bright 
Veeck flowers, are a splendid feature of the 
car pesioides California woods and canyons in June, 
Yellow especially on the slopes of the Santa Inez 
pameey + F mountains, where they often cover large 
ornia 
areas with green and gold; unfortunately 
the smell is rather disagreeable. The leafy stems are four 
or five feet high, nearly smooth, with alternate, bright 
green leaves, almost smooth and thin in texture, and the 
flowers, resembling Sun-flowers, are over two inches across, 
with clear yellow rays, an orange center, and an involucre 
of many green scales, overlapping and wrapped around 
each other, so that the bud looks much like a tiny head of 
lettuce. This was named for Venegas, a Jesuit missionary, 
and is the only kind, growing near the coast in the South. 
This is a slender plant, from six inches 
Ses 
a to two feet tall, with pale gray-green, 
le ptéclada woolly leaves, the lower ones somewhat 
Lilac toothed, and pale pinkish-lilac flowers, not 
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Californi very conspicuous in themselves, but some- 
times growing in such quantities that they 
form pretty patches of soft pinkish color in sandy places. 
The flower-head is about half an inch long, with no rays, 
but the outer flowers in the head are larger and have long 
lobes resembling rays. This is very variable, especially in 
size, and is common along dry roadsides and quite abun- 
dant in Yosemite. The picture is of a small plant. L. 
Germanorum, which is common on sandy hills along the 
coast from San Francisco to San Diego, has yellow flowers 
and blooms in autumn. 
There are many kinds of Baeria, not easily distinguished. 
Soabtbaa: This is a dear little plant, often covering 
Gold Fields the fields with a carpet of gold, The 
Baéria grécilis | Slender stems are about six inches tall, 
Yellow with soft, downy, light green leaves, 
Southwest 
usually opposite, and pretty fragrant 
flowers, about three-quarters of an inch across, with bright 
yellow rays and darker yellow centers. This is sometimes 
called Fly Flower, because in some places it is frequented 
by a small fly, which is annoying to horses. B. macrdntha 
is a much larger plant, a biennial, with a tuberous root, 
from seven inches to a foot and a half tall, with long, 
narrow, toothless leaves, with hairy margins, and flowere 
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