
SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
Valley, is very common in the East, and becoming common 
in Yosemite meadows. 
This little weed comes from South 
Brass Buttons, Africa, but is now common in wet places, 
Butter-heads 
Cétula especially in the salt marshes around San 
coronopifolia Francisco Bay, often carpeting the sand 
Yellow and mud with its succulent, trailing stems. 
pombe ea. The bright green leaves are alternate and 
Cal., Oreg. smooth, clasping the stem at base, some 
with toothless edges, others variously 
cut and lobed, and the flower-heads are about half an inch 
or less across, like the bright yellow center of a Daisy, 
without rays. Matricdria matricarioides is another little 
“weed, common along roadsides, with conical, greenish- 
yellow flower-heads, without rays, and feathery foliage, 
which has a strong pleasant fruity smell when crushed, 
giving it the name of Pineapple-weed and Manzanilla. 
An odd desert shrub, about three feet 
Tetradymia : : 
SVE AS aS high, with gray bark and crooked, gnarly, 
spindsa tangled branches, armed with long spines 
Yellow and clothed with small, downy, pale green 
Sane leaves. The flower-heads are  three- 
West, etc. 
quarters of an inch long, without rays, 
with pale yellow tube-shaped flowers and downy, white 
involucres, and are so crowded on the twigs that they 
appear to be loaded with them, but the coloring is too 
pale to be effective. This is common in the Mohave Desert 
and elsewhere on dry hills and plains, as far east as 
Colorado. 
There are a great many kinds of Solidago, most of them 
natives of North America. On the whole, the western 
Golden-rods are not so fine as the eastern ones, nor are 
there so many kinds, though there are quite enough to 
puzzle the amateur, as they are difficult to distinguish. 
A handsome kind, from one to two 
Arizona Golden- feet high, with flower-heads nearly three- 
se eighths of an inch across, with bright 
trinervata yellow rays and centers, forming a large, 
Yellow handsome, plume-like cluster. The stem 
tl and leaves are dull bluish-green, rather 
stiff and rough, the lower leaves with a 
few obscure teeth. This grows at the Grand Canyon. 
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