
CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaceae. 
There are a good many kinds of Agoseris, natives of 
western and southern North America and of southern 
South America. 
A pretty perennial plant, about fourteen 
Goat Chicory, inches tall, with a slender, slightly woolly 
Large-flowered 
Agoseris flower-stem, springing from a pretty 
Agéseris glauca luster of smooth bluish-green leaves, 
a sometimes toothless, and bearing a hand- 
pring - 
Utah, Ida., Wash., 5°™° bright yellow flower, from one to two 
ety inches across, the involucre often covered 
with white wool. This grows on dry 
slopes, as far east as Colorado. 
There are a good many kinds of Malacothrix, natives of 
the western and southwestern United States. 
A very attractive plant, with several 
Malécothri. age 
ica 09 flower-stalks, from six inches to a foot 
Yellow tall, springing from a pretty feathery tuft 
Spring of bright green root-leaves, cut into 
Southwest, Nev., 
Uish almost threadlike divisions and often 
tinged with deep red. The handsome 
flowers are nearly two inches across, clear very pale 
yellow, shading to brighter color towards the middle. 
This is common on open plains in southern California, 
where it passes almost gradually into M. Californica, which 
is similar, but conspicuously woolly when young, covered 
with very long, soft hairs. 
A smooth plant, with a “bloom,” from 
Snake’s Head ; E ; : 
five to sixteen inches high, often branching 
Malécothrix Z 
Coulteri from the base, the leaves cut into wavy 
White lobes, with no leaf-stalk. The handsome 
ae flowers are about an inch across, white, 
California 
turning pink in fading, the involucres 
with shining, papery, green and white bracts. This is one 
of the most conspicuous annuals in the San Joaquin Valley. 
M. saxdtilis, the Cliff Aster, is a handsome perennial, 
common in southern California and often growing on sea- 
cliffs. It has a leafy branching stem, from one to four feet 
high, the leaves toothless, or cut into slender divisions, and 
often quite fleshy, and many pretty flowers at the ends of 
the branches. They are each about an inch across, white, 
changing to pink or lilac, with an involucre of many narrow 
bracts, running down the flower-stalk. This is common in 
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