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BITTER-ROOT . 

 Lewisia rediviva. Purslane Family 



Stems: scape short, jointed, bracteolate near the middle. Leaves: 

 linear-oblong, subterete, smooth, glaucous. Flowers: sepals six to eight, 

 distinct, broadly ovate, unequal, partly scarious, petals eight to sixteen, 

 narrowly oblong. Fruit: capsule circumsessile at the base, then bursting 

 irregularly, seeds numerous, black, shining. 



The large showy rose-pink flowers of this Lewisia are 

 very lovely. The oblong, narrow leaves, which are crowded 

 at the crown of the thick caudex, are smooth and covered 

 \vith a whitish bloom ; while from a fleshy root grow the 

 one- flowered buff -coloured scapes that are jointed and have 

 buff bractlets near the middle. 



STRIPED OREOBROMA 



Oreobroma cotyledon. Purslane Family 



Stems: scapose, stout, from a fleshy root. Leaves: flat, spatulate to 

 oblanceolate. Flowers: in a short cymose panicle, sepals two, persistent, 

 petals five to ten, oblanceolate. Fruit: capsule obscurely two to four 

 valved, many-seeded. 



The flowers of this Oreobroma, which are deep rose- 

 colour with an orange stripe in the centre of each petal, 

 grow in short cymose panicles, terminating the rather stout 

 stems, which latter are six to twelve inches high, jointed at 

 the base, and usually have two pairs of bracts below the 

 inflorescence. The leaves, which are flat and spatulate or 

 oblanceolate, are imbricated in a dense rosulate tuft. The 

 roots of this perennial plant are thick and fleshy. 



WESTERN COLUMBINE 



Aquilegia formosa. Crowfoot Family 



Stems: branching from a simple, fleshy, fusiform root. Leaves: lower 

 ones triternate on long petioles, upper ones sessile or reduced to simple 



