MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 329 



GOAT'S BEARD 



SpircEii Arnncus. Rose Family 



Stems : erect, bracted. Leaves : long-petioled, pinnate, three-to-seven 

 foliolate ; leaflets ovate, lanceolate, thin, acute at the apex, rounded at 

 the base, sharply doubly serrate. Flowers: in long, slender, panicled 

 spikes, erect or spreading. 



This is another tall, shrub-like, perennial herb, placed in this 

 Section for greater convenience. It is quite unmistakable, as 

 it grows from three to ten feet high in the rich soil of the wet 

 valleys, and bears numerous long showy plumes of closely 

 clustered, minute, creamy flowers rising above its masses of 

 luxuriant strongly veined foliage. Thus the Goat's Beard is 

 both decorative and conspicuous. The tiny flowers are formed 

 of a five-lobed calyx and five petals, and the seeds are very 

 small and shining. 



SALMON-BERRY 



Rubus A'utkaHHs. Rose Family 



Erect, branched, very slightly bristly. Leaves : petioled, simple, cordate 

 at the base, three-to-five lobed, the lobes acute, the middle one slightly 

 longer than the others, all coarsely and unequally serrate. Flowers : white, 

 few, corymbose, terminal ; calyx-lobes tipped with a long slender appen- 

 dage. Fruit : depressed-hemispheric, edible, red when ripe. 



The five snow-white crinkled petals of the Salmon-berry 

 look very frail and pretty when seen amid the dense coarse 

 foliage of this large bushy shrub. The flower is formed like 

 a miniature w^hite rose, and has numerous tiny stamens set 

 around the convex receptacle in which are inserted the carpels 

 that ultimately ripen into drupelets and form an aggregate 

 red fruit. 



The Salmon-berry grows abundantly in the 



" High-wooded hollows, where serenely rest 

 The lazy clouds, like giants in repose." 



