INDEX TO FLOWERS BY COLOR 



WHITE, or WHITISH 



1 . Flowers clustered or racemose 



MUILLA. Small (tinged with green) wheel- 

 shaped flowers in umbels. 



DESERT LILY. Suggesting an Easter Lily; 

 in racemes; basal leaves long and crinkly. 



WASHINGTON LILY. Horizontal, fragrant; in 

 pyramidal racemes. 



OUR LORD'S CANDLE. A huge panicle rising 

 out of a. round mass of dagger-like leaves. 



SOAP PLANT. Small with recurved segments; 

 in loose, wide-spreading panicles; opening 

 in the afternoon. 



ZYGADENE. Star-like with a greenish spot 

 at base of each segment; in racemes or pan- 

 icles. 



SQUAW GRASS. Dense racemes; leaves grass- 

 like in a large basal tuft. 



KNOTWEED. In dense spikes, a plant of wet 

 mountain meadows. 



MINER'S LETTUCE. Small flowers in racemes, 

 rising out of two united leaves that make a 

 cup around the stem. 



GHOST FLOWER. Whole plant pure white, 

 the leaves reduced to scales. 



INSIDE-OUT FLOWER. Small, drooping, num- 

 erous in a loose panicle. 



PEPPER-ROOT. In loose racemes, 4 petals. 



WHIPPLEA. Small, calyx and corolla colored 

 alike, in clusters at branch-ends. 



ALUM-ROOT. In a loose, feathery panicle; 

 leaves basal. 



RATTLE WEED. Pea-like, narrow; leaves pin- 

 nate; seedpods inflated like bladders. 



EULOPHUS. In long-stalked compound um- 

 bels. In damp mountain meadows. 



SALAL. L T rn-shaped, in racemes. A low, 

 evergreen shrub. 



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