SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
This is handsome and conspicuous, with 
Blanket-flower, 4 slender, rough stalk, about a foot tall, 
Gaillardia A ; 
Gaillardia dull green, stiff, rather hairy leaves, 
pinnatifida mostly from the root, and beautiful 
Yellow flowers, an inch and a half across, with 
Summer 
golden-yellow rays, with three teeth, and 
a center of shaded maroon and yellow, 
which is very velvety and pretty and becomes an attractive, 
purplish, fuzzy, round head when the rays drop off. This 
grows on the plains. G. aristdta, found throughout the 
West and as far east as Colorado, is an exceedingly hand- 
some kind, sometimes over two feet tall, with beautiful 
yellow flowers, sometimes measuring four inches across. 
A pretty little desert plant, from four to 
Ariz., Col., Tex. 
Arizona Gaillardia 
Gaillardia eight inches tall, with a slender, downy 
Arizonica flower-stalk, springing from a cluster of 
Yellow roughish, light dull green leaves, more or 
Spring 
less hairy and bearing a single handsome 
flower, nearity two inches across, with a 
downy involucre and three-toothed rays of an unusual 
and pretty shade of dull light yellow, finely veined with 
brown on the back, surrounding a darker yellow, fuzzy 
center. 
Arizona 
A neat little evergreen, shrubby plant, 
teidlin SY! only about three inches high, with branch- 
Hartwégi ing stems, clothed with small, narrow, 
Yellow dull green leaves, which look prickly but 
parog a are actually not very stiff, though tipped 
with tiny bristles. The flowers are three- 
eighths of an inch across, very perfect in outline, with 
bright yellow rays and deeper yellow centers, and the 
whole effect, of a tiny shrub sprinkled with flowers, is quite 
attractive, growing on very dry ground along the roadside. 
The plant has a pronounced smell, which is not unpleasant. 
This looks a good deal like an Aster, 
Tall Purple Aster 4 branching plant, from two to nearly 
h e : P 
eee tiga} “three feet high, with grayish-green, 
Purple slightly downy leaves, with very sharp 
Spring teeth. The flowers are an inch and a 
Southwest, Utah, haf across, with narrow, bright violet 
sha rays and bright yellow centers. This 
grows abundantly in valleys. 
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