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Leaves lobed; flowers white; fruits with long while-fuzzy tails. 

 Bark usually reddish-brown; calyx without teeth or append- 

 ages between the sepals; fruits usually 5 



COWANIA, p. 141 . 



Bark usually light gray or whitish; calyx with lance-shaped 

 or oblong teeth or appendages between the sepals; 



fruits many, packed into fluffy heads 



FALLUGIA, p. 1 42. 



Leaves 3-toothed at the tip; flowers yellow; fruits not tailed 



PURSHIA, p. 143. 



Flowers borne in large many-flowered clusters; occurs in Sequoia and 



Yosemite National Parks ADENOSTOMA, p. 143. 



Bearmat, Mountain Misery (Chamaebatia joliolosa Benth.). — Low, 

 strongly aromatic, evergreen shrub % to 2 feet high, with spreading branches 

 and fern-like fohage; leaves about 1 to 3 inches long, several times divided 

 into very fine leaflets, each tipped with a yellowish resin gland; flowers white, 

 with 5 petals, resembling flowers of strawberries or blackberries; fruits small 

 seed-like achenes. 



Bearmat often forms extensive carpets in the open ponderosa pine forests 

 of the Sierra Nevada. The strong aromatic odor, while fragrant and agree- 

 able at a distance, is obnoxious to most people at close range. Because of 

 this and also because of the sticky resinous leaves which often stain the clothing, 

 the plant is sometimes called mountain misery. Kit-kit-dizze is the Indian 

 name which has been adopted in some localities. The herbage is practically 

 useless as a browse for animals. 



Occurrence. — yosemite, common, 4,000 to 6,500 feet: Chilnualna Creek; Ackerson 



Creek, north of Carl Inn; Mariposa 

 Grove; Wawona ; Chinquapin. SE- 

 QUOIA, abundant, 4,000 to 6,500 feet; 

 near Colony Mill ranger station; 

 Clough Cave; Giant Forest; Atwell 

 Mill; Garfield Grove. 



Fernbush, Tansybush, 

 Desert-sweet (Chamaebatiaria 

 millejolium (Torr.) Maxim.), 

 fig. 41. — Stout erect evergreen 

 shrub 2 to 6 feet high with diffuse 

 branches; leaves lance-shaped, 1 to 

 21/2 inches long, 1/3 to ^ inch 

 wide, twice divided into very fine 

 leaflets; flowers white, 1/3 to % 

 inch across, 5-petalled, borne in 

 conspicuous leafy clusters at the 

 ends of the branches; fruits small 

 several-seeded pods, borne 5 to a 

 flower. The species favors dry 

 rocky slopes. The foliage is of 



Fig. 41. 



Fernbush {Chamaebatiaria 

 millefolium) . 



