. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. PI<ATE 115. ARIZONA WYETHIA. ARIZONICA. (SUNFLOWKR FAMILY.) P/renntat, sq/t'kairy; Ufm frect, ralhrf tt'tut, not afhKr •mi- finU high. .i/nttinf;lv hijtichfii; i(«»/-/< ahiHit one f^Mt limg, ellifttu oi oblong, ucuU at holh rwt/i, uith u /nomiuettt mid-rib; xltm f,-at^s itnalfi-i, otMU: Mpfirimost ing ; hi\nis Itttgf, ioltt^tty itt ike fiids o/thc bttiHchrs ; outet of iHvolHfie teof-likr; tays eight to turtle, liiige. ill the century, when the plants of t
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. PI<ATE 115. ARIZONA WYETHIA. ARIZONICA. (SUNFLOWKR FAMILY.) P/renntat, sq/t'kairy; Ufm frect, ralhrf tt'tut, not afhKr •mi- finU high. .i/nttinf;lv hijtichfii; i(«»/-/< ahiHit one f^Mt limg, ellifttu oi oblong, ucuU at holh rwt/i, uith u /nomiuettt mid-rib; xltm f,-at^s itnalfi-i, otMU: Mpfirimost ing ; hi\nis Itttgf, ioltt^tty itt ike fiids o/thc bttiHchrs ; outet of iHvolHfie teof-likr; tays eight to turtle, liiige. ill the century, when the plants of the setlleil ] .is of Kasterii North America had l)ecoine fairly well-knoxvii to Ixitanists. anient collectors l)egan to finil their way westwar'l. 1 lie course of .science is always in aiUance of that of empire. ICie ci\ilization had reached the banks of the , explorers were tn'.versing the vast wilderness beyond. Some soujjht the head-waters of the Mississippi. Others ascended the niiiddy Missouri. Xuttall, an Knj;lish botanist who came (juite youii>; to this country, was one the most indefatigable of these pioneers. He collected extensively in Arkansas. Then, growing bolder, he joined an expedition that pushed across the continent to the Pacific. Hundreils of new plants wi re thus >"or his fellow-explorer, Nathaniel Wyeth. Nnttall named a new Reiins of the t^unflower Hainily. Wyethia is one of the numerous i^enera of this family confined to Western North America. The spmes are mostly Californian, though some .are widely in the ''cky Mountains. They are rather coarse plants, with ''ir^e, yellow-rayed and resinous juice. The large, starchy roots were eaten by the Indians. Wyethia Arizonica is found near running water in the mountains. Mi 1 PIRATE Ii6. SMOOTH ROCK-CRESS. ARABIS LAEVIGATA. (CRESS FAMILY). Whole plant quite smooth: toot uither thici. petenniat; item erect, simple, leafy; rmst-teatvs tosulate.
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