FALSE HELLEBORE. In large panicles; plants 



3 to 7 feet tall, with plaited sheathing 



leaves. 

 STREAM ORCHIS. A leafy orchid, 1 to 4 feet 



high with clasping, parallel-nerved leaves 



in wet places. 

 CASTOR OIL PLANT. In terminal racemes. A 



tall, herbaceous plant with large palmate 



leaves. 

 SQUAW BUSH. Small (yellowish) in spike-like 



clusters, before the leaves. A shrub. 

 CASCARA SAGRADA. Small, in umbel-like 



clusters. An evergreen shrub or small 



tree. 

 QUININE BUSH. In drooping catkins of 2 sexes. 



A shrub. 

 CALIFORNIA BEE-PLANT. Corolla globular, 



upper lip erect. 

 BIRD-BEAK. Nearly hidden within green 



calyx, upper lip beak-like and protrud- 

 ing. 



BROWN 



MISSION BELLS. Nodding in a raceme; leaves 

 in whorls. 



CHOCOLATE LILY. Flowers 1 to 3, leaves scat- 

 tered, mostly near the base. 



LADY'S SLIPPER. Flower an inflated sac, 2 

 wavy-twisted lateral petals, and stringy 



WILD GINGER. Bell-shaped, the 3 divisions 

 extended into long tails. 



CANCER ROOT. Small, 2-lipped, solitary on 

 long branched stalks. A leafless parasite. 



CONE FLOWER. Composite with yellow rays, 

 and conspicuous brownish purple disk be- 

 coming conical in age. 



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