ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



A large and important family, widely distributed and 

 including some of our loveliest flowers and most delicious 

 fruits; herbs, shrubs, or trees; generally with stipules and 

 usually with alternate leaves; the flowers rich in pollen 

 and honey and usually perfect. The calyx usually five- 

 lobed, often with bracts, with a disk adhering to its base; 

 the petals of the same number as the calyx-lobes, separate 

 or none; the stamens usually numerous, separate, with 

 small anthers; the ovary superior, or partly inferior; the 

 pistils few or many, separate or adhering to the calyx, 

 sometimes, as in the true Rose, enclosed and concealed in a 

 hollow receptacle; the fruit of various kinds and shapes. 



There are several kinds of Opulaster, branching shrubs, 

 with clusters of white flowers and grayish or reddish, 

 shreddy bark. 



This, is a handsome bush, from three to 



six feet high ' with P rett y> almos t smooth, 

 malv&ceus bright green leaves, with large stipules. 



(Physocarpus) The flowers are sweet-smelling, about half 

 White an inch across, with cream-white petals, 



and form very beautiful and conspicuous 

 Northwest, Utah, 

 Ari z . rounded clusters, about three inches across, 



the long stamens giving a very feathery 

 appearance. At a distance this shrub has the effect of 

 Hawthorn in the landscape. It grows on mountainsides in 

 rich soil. 



Apache Plume There are two kinds of Fallugia. This 



Fallugia paraddxa is usually a low undershrub, but in the 

 White Grand Canyon, on the plateau, it is a fine 



Spring bush, four or five feet high, with pale 



Ariz., New Mex. 



woody, branching stems; the small, some- 

 what downy, evergreen leaves, resembling those of the Cliff 

 Rose, but the flowers larger. They are white, two inches 

 across, like a Wild Rose in shape, with beautiful golden cen- 

 ters, and grow on long, slender, downy flower-stalks, at the 

 ends of the branches. Individually, they are handsomer 

 than the flowers of the Cliff Rose, but not nearly so effective, 

 as the bloom is much more scattered. The calyx-tube is 

 downy inside and the five sepals alternate with five, small, 

 long, narrow bractlets. The hairy pistils are on a small 

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