SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
Afri ; A handsome plant, which is noticeable 
rican Senecio ; g 
Senecio élegans | © account of its unusual coloring. The 
White and mauve stout, smooth stem is two or three feet 
Spring = tall, with smooth, slightly thickish leaves, 
Cohitorss the margins rolled back, a very peculiar 
shade of light bright yellowish-green. The handsome 
flowers are an inch and three-eighths across, with bright 
deep yellow centers and white rays shading to mauve at 
the tips, and form a large flat-topped cluster. This is a 
native of Africa and is not yet common in this country, 
but grows on the sand dunes near San Francisco. 
There are many kinds of Baccharis, all American, 
chiefly shrubs. 
A branching evergreen shrub, from two 
Sa SER to five feet high, with smooth dark green, 
Picckires leathery leaves, an inch or less long, rather 
pilularis wedge-shaped, usually coarsely toothed. 
Whitish, yellowish The flower-heads are very small, without 
a rays, and are crowded at the ends of the 
Cal., Oreg., Wash. ‘ ; 
twigs. Some plants have only staminate 
flowers and some only pistillate ones, and the effect of the 
two sorts is very different, for the staminate flowers are 
ugly, but the pistillate ones are provided with quantities 
of long, white, silky pappus, giving a beautiful, snowy 
appearance to the shrub. This is very variable, being a 
fine shrub in favorable situations, and is common along the 
coast on the sand dunes, on low hills and on high mountain 
slopes. 
There are a great many kinds of Aster, most abundant in 
North America, difficult to distinguish, the flowers never 
yellow. Though there are some fine ones in the West, they 
are not so numerous or so handsome as in the East. 
This is one of the commonest kinds and 
is quite handsome, from two to five feet 
Groundsel-tree 
Aster 
Aster Chamissé6nis 
Purple high, with leafy, branching stems and 
Summer, autumn alternate, lance-shaped leaves, from two 
vcore to five inches long, usually toothless, 
without leaf-stalks. The many flowers are an inch or more 
across, with yellow centers and white, violet, or purple 
rays, the bracts of the involucre in several rows, with short 
and rounded tips. This is rather variable. A. radulinus, 
Broad-leaf Aster, has stiff, rough leaves, sharply toothed 
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