

CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaceae. 


Glicas) Hise This is a straggling plant, from one to 
ee na three feet tall, a perennial, with a long, 
Cichorium I'ntybus deep tap-root, stiff, branching stems, and 
Blue leaves irregularly slashed into toothed 
Summer, autumn 
Northwest, etc. 
lobes and chiefly from the root. The 
pretty flowers are from an inch to an inch 
and a half across, much like those of Desert Chicory, but 
very brilliant blue, occasionally white. This plant has 
escaped from cultivation and is now very common in waste 
places and along roadsides in the East and often found 
in the West. The ground-up root is used as a substitute 
for coffee. There is a picture in Mathews’ Field Book. 
There are several kinds of Microseris, rather difficult to 
distinguish. 
; This is about a foot tall, with smooth, 
Silver-puffs 
Wiis hollow flower-stems, smooth leaves, and 
linearifolia rather small yellow flowers, not particu- 
Yellow larly pretty. The ‘‘gone-to-seed’’ flower- 
Spring 
heads are, however, very conspicuous, for 
they are nearly an inch and a half across, 
and each seed is tipped by a little silvery paper star, the 
effect before the wind carries them away being exceedingly 
pretty, a good deal like a Dandelion puff. This grows in 
the Grand Canyon on the plateau. 
There are many kinds of Sonchus, natives of the Old 
World. 
Sow Thistle 
Sénchus oleradceus 
Southwest, Nev. 
A common weed, from Europe, found 
across the continent, coarse but decorative 
Yellow in form, with a stout leafy stem, from one 
Allseasons —_— to’ four feet tall, and smooth leaves, with 
West, etc. 
some soft prickles on the edges, the upper 
ones clasping the stem and the lower ones with leaf-stalks. 
The pale yellow flowers are three-quarters of an inch or 
more across. : 
There are several kinds of Taraxacum, natives of the 
northern hemisphere and southern South America. 
This is a weed in all civilized parts of 
Loevaunes the world, growing in meadows, fields, and 
Taraxacum P : 
pee waste places. It has a thick, deep, bitter 
Yellow root, a tuft of root-leaves, slashed into 
All seasons toothed lobes, and several hollow flower- 
U. S., etc. 
stalks, from two to eighteen inches tall, 
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