
CHICORY FAMILY, Cicoriaceae. 
towards the broad tips, and usually many flowers, an inch 
or so across, with whitish rays. This is rather common on 
dry hills in California and Oregon, blooming in summer and 
autumn. A. Anderséni, of Yosemite, has toothless, grass- 
like root-leaves and one beautiful flower, an inch across, 
with purple rays. 
CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaceae. 
A large family, of wide geographic distribution, re- 
sembling the Sunflower Family and by some authors 
included init. They are herbs, rarely trees, almost always 
with milky, acrid, or bitter juice; the leaves alternate or 
from the root; the flowers small and crowded in heads, 
with :nvolucres, the bracts in one or several rows; the 
receptacle flat or flattish, sometimes naked or smooth, 
sometimes scaly, pitted or honeycombed; the flowers all 
perfect; the calyx-tube without pappus, or with pappus of 
scales or bristles, sometimes feathery; the corollas not of 
two sorts, like those of the Sunflower Family, but all with 
a strap-shaped border, usually five-toothed, and a short 
or long tube; the anthers united into a tube around the 
style, which is very slender and two-cleft or two-lobed; the 
ovary one-celled and inferior, developing into an akene. 
There are several kinds of Ptiloria, of western and 
central North America. 
In the desert this is a very strange- 
ican looking, pale plant, forming a scanty, 
pict USiebbaies | straggling bush, about two feet high, with 
meria runcinata) Slender, brittle, gray stems, most of the 
Pink leaves reduced to mere scales, and delicate, 
Sprins pale pinkish-lilac flowers, less than half 
West, etc. : : : 
an inch long. This grows on the plains, as 
far east as Texas, and is not always so leafless as in the 
picture, which is that of a desert plant, but has some 
coarsely-toothed leaves. 
oS ae Much like the last, but not a queer- 
Piiloria Wrghtii looking plant, with pale green fcliage and 
(Stephanomeria) larger, prettier flowers, three-quarters of 
an inch long, giving the effect of tiny, 
pale pink carnations. This grows at the 
Grand Canyon. 
570 
Summer 
Ariz., New Mex. 

