RAYLESS GROUNDSEL 



Senecio fauciflorus Pursh 



Rayless groundsel, though not usually conspicuous, gives in mid- 

 summer a touch of brilliant color amid the otherwise dull grasses and 

 willows of the mountain meadows. At first sight it seems to be a 

 budding flower, soon to unfold, but the long rays characteristic of 

 most other species of composites are absent, and the head expands no 

 further. 



Rayless groundsel extends from Michigan to Wyoming and Cal- 

 ifornia, and northward to Labrador, Quebec, and Alaska. 



The specimen sketched grew in the valley of Johnson Creek, twelve 

 miles northeast of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, at an altitude of 

 5,500 feet. 



PLATE 93 



