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ing sunshine they made a superb display with their 
orange and black flowers. 
Echinops “Globe thistles” are in 75 species 
found in Southern Europe, North Africa, and tern 
perate and sub- 
tropical Asia. 
They are herbs 
of a thistle like 
aspe ct with 
heads of blue or 
white flowers. 
Several are in 
garden s . E. 
bannaticus and 
E. Ritro with 
cnicus diacantha. blue, and E. 
sphaerocephalus with blue and also white flowers 
being among the most familiar. 
Xeranthemum is a genus of annuals in 4 or 5 
species from Mediterranean regions. 
Cnicus is a “thistle” genus in 150 to 200 species 
often too familiar on all the continents. Some are 
ornamental and so also are several Carduus. 
Onopordon “Scotch thistle?” has 15 species in 
Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. O. 
acanthium the kind most commonly grown becomes 
wild occasionally in the Atlantic states. Three or 
four others are in Botanic Gardens. 
Centaurea is a large genus of perennials and an- 
nuals of varying aspect. There are 350 or more 
species in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North 
America. Some are almost cosmopolitan. The 
European “cornflower” is one of these and has var- 
CENTAUREA macroceph ala. (Very greatly reduced. ) 
ied greatly in the color of its flowers, while some 
have become double in gardens. C. Americana is 
the only true native. It is found on the prairies 
from Louisiana westward to Arizona. The other 
wild ones are naturalized European kinds. C. 
atropurpurea, C. nigra variegata, C. macrocephala, 
C. orientalis and several with silvery foliage are a 
good deal appreciated. 
Carthamus with 20 species in Europe, Asia and 
the Canary Islands yields the “safflower” the “globe 
artichoke’’ and some other useful kinds. 
Mutisice as a tribe is quite variable and often 
very handsome, but they are not much known, and 
only a few shrubs and climbers will be mentioned. 
Barnadcsia is a South American genus in 10 
species some of which may be useful in Californian 
climates. B. rosea, B. grandiflora and others are 
small pink flowered shrubs of considerable beauty. 
Mutisia has 40 species all South American. 
Many of these are climbers with large showy orange 
or red flowers. M. decurrens from the Andes of 
Chili has proven hardy on walls in the south of En- 
gland. 
Gochnatia in jo species are mostly South Ameri- 
can too, but G. hypoleuca is found in southern 
Texas where it is a rigid shrub of five or six feet 
high, with inch long bright green leaves which are 
quite silvery beneath, and fascicles of whitish 
flowers. 
Hecastocleis Shockleyi is a low rigid, desert 
shrub with dull whitish flowers — from Western 
Nevada. 
Gcrbera is an Asiatic and African genus of 
about 20 species of perennials and sub-shrubs. G. 
Jamesoni has orange-scarlet flowers of great brilli- 
ancy. A small shrub from the province of Yun-nan, 
China, bearing white flowers, was introduced a few 
years ago under the name of Nouelia insignis which 
appears to be of this affinity. 
Proustia is a South American genus in 6 or 7 
species mostly from Andean and sub-tropical re- 
gions. P. pyrifolia is a white flowered Chilian 
climber remarkable for its beautiful rose colored 
pappus. 
Dendroseris macrophylla is a monotypic simple 
stemmed tree-like plant of 12 or 15 feet high, from 
the Island of Juan Fernandez. The stem is sur- 
mounted by a crown of large leaves and a droop- 
ing panicle of yellow flowers. It might possibly 
succeed in a climate such as that of Santa Barbara, 
Cal. 
Cichorium in three species is the “chicory” and 
“endive” genus and there are but few more beauti- 
ful blue flowers than those of the chicory. The 
plant is unattractive however and too common, and 
the same may be said of the “hawkweeds,” “dan- 
delions” and some others of the tribe. 
Trenton, N. J. James Mac Pher son. 
