152 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



GOAT'S BEARD 



Aruncus Sylvester. Rose Family 



Stems: erect, bracted. Leaves: long-petioled, pinnate, three-to- 

 seven foliolate; leaflets ovate, lanceolate, thin, acute at the apex, 

 rounded at the base, sharply doubly serrate. Flowers: in long, slender, 

 panicled spikes, erect or spreading. 



This tall, shrub-like, perennial herb is quite unmistakable, 

 as it grows from three to ten feet high in the rich soil of 

 the wet valleys, and bears numerous long showy plumes of 

 closely clustered, minute, creamy flowers rising above its 

 masses of luxuriant strongly veined foliage. Thus the 

 Goat's Beard is both decorative and conspicuous. The tiny 

 flowers are formed of a five-lobed calyx and five petals, and 

 the seeds are very small and shining. 



ALPINE SPIR^A 



Lutkea pectinata. Rose Family 



Stems: cespitose, creeping, very leafy; flowering stems erect. 

 Leaves: trifoliolate, persistent; leaflets deeply lobed. Flowers: in 

 short terminal racemes ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, equalling the tube ; 

 petals obovate. 



A lovely trailing plant, its flowers growing to an average 

 height of four inches, in elongated heads, each individual 

 tiny blossom having six white petals and a number of yellow 

 stamens. The leaves grow close to the ground, resembling 

 a large moss, and are deeply fringed and fern-like. The 

 shoots of the plant run along the ground; the stems of the 

 flowers are brittle and woody. 



COMMON SERVICEBERRY 



Amelanchier florida. Rose Family 



A shrub three to six feet high, more or less tomentose-pubescent when 

 young, at length glabrate throughout and somewhat glaucous. Leaves: 



