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SPREADING DOGBANE 



Apocyniim aiidroscumifolium. Dogbane Family- 

 Stems: one to three feet high, branches broadly spreading, smooth. 

 Leaves: ovate or oval, opposite, entire, smooth above, usually hairy be- 

 neath. Flowers: open-campanulate, five-parted, lobes revolute. Fruit: 

 slender elongated terete seed pods, usually in pairs. 



A plant with quantities of little spreading branches bear- 

 ing oval spine-tipped leaves and numerous pink flow^ers, 

 veined with a deeper red, in loose terminal and axillary- 

 convex clusters. The plant is full of a milky juice. 



ALPINE PHLOX 



Phlox Douglasii. Polemonium Family 



Stems: rather slender, ascending or erect. Leaves: acerose to linear- 

 subulate, pubescent to nearly glabrous, often ciliate near the base, 

 loosely imbricated. Flowers: sessile or short-peduncled. Fruit: cap- 

 sule ovoid, three valved. 



The plants of the Alpine Phlox form cushion-like tufts 

 on the rocky slopes of the mountains, where their pretty 

 little pink, lilac or white flowers, that terminate the branch- 

 lets, are usually sessile. The corolla is salver-form with 

 a five-lobed border, and there are five stamens on its tube. 

 The leaves are needle-like, rigid, loosely imbricated, and 

 often clustered at the nodes. 



SCARLET GILIA 



Gilia aggregata. Polemonium Family 



Stems: erect, leafy, simple or sometimes loosely branched. Leaves: 

 pinnately parted into narrowly linear segments, mucronulate. Flowers: 

 calyx glandular, tube campanulate, as long as the subulate teeth, corolla 

 tubular-funnelform, the lobes ovate or lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit: 

 &eeds developing mucilage and spiral threads when wetted, 



