SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
heads from an inch to an inch and a half across, with 
yellow rays and hairy involucres, This grows along the 
coast in California, blooming in May and June. 
There are several kinds of Bahia, natives of western 
North America, Mexico, and Chile, herbs or shrubs, more 
or less woolly. 
This is from eight to fifteen inches tall, 
my absinthi- With pretty flowers, an inch and a half 
folia across, with bright yellow rays and deep 
Yellow yellow centers, contrasting well with the 
“wind pale gray-green foliage, which is covered 
with close white down. This grows in 
arid situations on the mesas and often forms clumps. 
There are several kinds of Crassina, natives of the United 
States and Mexico. 
ee Nothing could look much less like a 
Desert Zinnia a. wage ; ‘ : 
Crassina pamila 2tden Zinnia than this dry, prickly-looking 
(Zinnia) dwarf shrub. It is from three inches to a 
ipa foot high, the branches crowded with very 
pring 
small, stiff, dull green leaves, and the 
flowers are about an inch across, rather 
pretty but not conspicuous, with a yellow center and four 
or five, broad, cream-white rays, often tinged with dull pink. 
This plant grows on the plains and is a “‘soil-indicator,”’ as 
it flourishes on the poorest, stoniest, and most arid land. 
Charming flowers, with a thrifty, 
Arizona 
pg gay: cultivated appearance like that of a garden 
ee aa, flower. The plant is a foot tall, with 
Yellow _ grayish-green, woolly stems and foliage, 
Spring, summer, and the handsome flower is an inch and a 
ae thwest, Tex, Balf across, with a fine ruffle of many 
°"““ bright yellow rays, prettily scalloped, 
and a yellow center, rather deeper in color. In Arizona 
bouquets of these flowers may be gathered during every 
month in the year. 
An odd little desert plant, about six 
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ae <a inches tall, with a thickish stem and soft, 
Yellow thickish leaves, covered all over with 
Spring silky, white wool, giving a pale, silky 
Southwest 
effect to the whole plant, which is quite 
pretty, though the pale yellow flowers, each about half an 
inch across, are not striking. 
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