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flowers which may be white, yellow, red or purple. Locow^ed 

 includes a great number of species abundant in arid regions of 

 central and western United States; the scarlet, cream-colored or 

 white flowers are grouped in erect spikes. Lupine flowers are 

 blue, purple, red, white or yellow. The common lupine of north- 

 eastern United States prefers sunny and sandy habitats. The 

 California lupines form a large part of the annual "wild flower 

 show" which transforms miles of grassy slopes of the California 

 hills into a sea of blue and purple. 



The Rose Family 



The Rose Family (Rosaceae) includes several common wild 

 flowers. We have already seen (see p. 193) that a great number of 



Fig. 269. — ^The Rose Family includes five finger (A), wild rose (B), wild 

 strawberry (C), and thimbleberry (D). 



our orchard fruits belong to this family. The flower of a typical 

 member of the Rose Family is made up of five sepals and five petals 

 attached to the rim of a cup-shaped receptacle (fig. 269). Five- 

 finger or ciNQUEFOiL is a genus of temperate and subarctic 



