INSIDE-OUT-FLOWER (Vancouveria parviflora, Greene.). 

 Flowers white or lavender, small, drooping, and numerous, 

 with 6 to 9 petal-like bracts, in a loose panicle topping a wiry 

 stem 1 to 2 feet tall. Sepals soon falling, white like the petals, 

 but much larger, and abruptly recurved, exposing the inner 

 floral organs in a way that suggests the quaint popular name 

 that Miss Armstrong has recorded. Leaves radical, com- 

 pound, twice or thrice ternate, the somewhat leathery leaflets 

 about an inch across. The general effect of these graceful 

 leaves is that of a robust maidenhair fern. 



The Inside-out-flower blooms in late spring or early sum- 

 mer, in shady Coast Range woodlands from Central California 

 northward to British Columbia. There are two other species, 

 one, an Oregonian, with larger yellow flowers. The name 

 Vancouveria preserves for flower lovers the name of that fine 

 old sea rover, Captain George Vancouver, who visited the 

 Pacific Coast in the early 1790's on his way around the world, 

 and brought with him as botanist of his expedition the fa- 

 mous Scotch collector, Archibald Menzies. 





