216 Pink to Red Flowers 



LYALL'S ROCK CRESS 



Arabis Lyallii. Mustard Family 



Stems: simple, more or less stellate-pubescent, from a branched peren- 

 nial caudex. Leaves: the lower spatulate, the stem leaves lanceolate. 

 Flowers: in rose-mauve racemes. Fruit: seeds orbicular, narrowly 

 winged in one row. 



The several stems grow from the same root and the lower 

 leaves are spatulate, those on the stems being narrow and 

 slightly lobed at the base. The rose-mauve flowers are very 

 pretty growing in an elongated scattered cluster, and the 

 pods are erect, slender and straight. This plant is found 

 at high altitudes/ 



ROSEWORT 



Sedum roscum. Orpine Family 



Stems: erect,- simple, glabrous. Leaves: oval, obtuse at the apex, den- 

 tate. Flowers: cyme terminal dense; petals longer than the oblong nar- 

 row sepals ; staminate flowers with eight stamens, the pistillate ones with 

 four carpels. 



The small purplish-red flowers of this short thick plant 

 are set in a cluster at the top of the stems, which are covered 

 with many small leaves. It grows in the crannies between 

 the rocks and on stony slopes. 



WOODLAND STAR 



Lithophragma tenella. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: slightly glandular-pubescent. Leaves: trifoliolate, leaflets 

 two to three parted, two to three lobed segments cuneiform. Flowers: 

 few in a capitate bulblet-bearing raceme. Fruit: seeds short-oblong, 

 rough-tuberculate. 



The slender stems of this Lithophragma which branch 

 from the base are slightly roughened by minute hairs. The 

 leaves are trifoliolate, and the pale pink flowers grow in a 



