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acrid. The twigs bear peculiar, 3-5 fold buds closely clustered 

 below the leaves. 



The wild rose presents two or more species. The first is simi- 

 lar to our eastern woodland rose (Rosa blanda) , both in leaf and 

 blossom. It is not common, and grows only in the more open 

 places, upon the moister soil. It commonly grows to a height of 

 2-3 feet. The writer found one specimen, however, in a copse on 

 the banks of the majestic Peud O'Reille River, that measured fully 

 8 feet in height. This may have been R. colifoniica or an allied 

 species. 



The small form grows only in the shade of the forest, being 

 visited but now and then by a speck of sunshine. It grows from 

 6 inches to 3 feet high. Its blossoms are ^-i inch in diameter, 

 and its hips are correspondingly small and oval. It is very 

 probably R. gymnocarpa. Its leaves are small and, like those of 

 most forest plants, are very thin and delicate. One may observe 

 that the whole scanty flora of the dense forest shades extends its 

 foliage horizontally, in order to catch every precious bit of sun- 

 light. This is in marked contrast to the greater or less perpen- 

 dicularity of the prairie foliage, which thus avoids the burning 

 summer sun. 



The meadow-sweet (Holodiscus discolor). This is the beau- 

 tiful shrub that lends to the many hilltops of the Priest River 

 Valley their exquisite, park-like attraction. The ponderous 

 crowns of the bull pine wave in the breeze above, on every hand 

 are copses of young red fir, of fresh and lively green, amongst 

 which the trail of the deer leads us over grass-covered plots set 

 here and there in nature's inimitable way with this handsome, 

 richly-scented shrub. It grows from 4-10 feet high. Its light- 

 green, triangular leaves are 3-lobed and toothed, and possess 

 prominent veins. The small, creamy-white, 5-petaled flowers 

 are borne in dense, compound panicles, or grape-like clusters. 

 The 3-5 sub-panicles extend at right angles to the main axis, 

 which attains a length of 5-10, or sometimes 12 inches. This 

 shrub, where hardy, is worthy of extensive planting on lawns and 

 parks. 



