THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



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there are over seventy species in cur region. Some of them are 

 called "rattle-weeds" because the seeds rattle in the dry pods in 

 the autumn, others are "ground-plums" from the shape and 

 size of the enlaged seed vessels. 



Having reached the mountains your road will follow up 

 some canon. Do not lose a minute from the business of the 



Mariposa Lilies. 



trail to seek the orchids and the pine-drops that live in the 

 seclusion of the deep coniferous forests, 



"For everj- weed's a wild flower 

 And every briar's a rose." 



and even he who motors through our mountains may glimpse 

 the glory of the flowering shrubs, our pride and the visitor's 

 delight. There are the wide, white saucers of the false rasp- 

 berry and the snowy plumes of the holodiscus on the creek 

 banks, wax-Mower and nine-bank on the hillsides and wild 

 roses everywhere. 



Watch for the bed-straw's foam and fragrance by the 

 spring and the phacelia's fur and fuzz along the road. The 



