ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



_ J A charming kind, delicate both in 



Redwood Rose 



JWsa ymnocdrM foliage and flower, asually growing in 

 Pink shady, mountain woods. The slender 



Spring, summer bush is from one to three feet high, with 

 Northwest aT ^ brown stems, armed with some 



straight, slender thorns, and light green leaves, usually 

 with quite a number of neat little leaflets, smooth and thin 

 in texture. The flowers are an inch or less across, usually 

 single, with light yellow centers and bright pink petals, 

 very clean and fresh in tone, usually deeper towards the 

 margins. The sepals are not leafy at the tips, the flower- 

 stalks, and sometimes the leaf-stalks also, are covered with 

 small, dark, sticky hairs and the buds are tipped with 

 carmine. Neither leaves nor flowers are fragrant. 



This is the only kind. In open places, 

 Mountain Misery j r 



Chamaebfoia m tne Sierra forests, the ground is often 

 folioldsa carpeted for acres with the feathery 



White foliage of this charming shrub, sprinkled 



Summer ^ oyer with pretty w hit e flowers. Moun- 



Cahforma ... _ 



tain Misery does not at first seem an 



appropriate name for so attractive a plant, but when we 

 walk through the low, green thickets we find not only that 

 the tangled branches catch our feet but that the whole 

 plant is covered with a strong-smelling, resinous substance, 

 which comes off on our clothes in a most disagreeable 

 manner. On a warm day the forest is filled with the pecu- 

 liar, medicinal fragrance and when, later in the season, we 

 unpack our camping outfit we are apt to be puzzled by the 

 smell of "Pond's Extract" which our clothes exhale. 

 The shrub is usually less than two feet high, with downy, 

 evergreen foliage, the numerous small leaflets so minutely 

 subdivided and scalloped that they have the appearance 

 of soft ferns. The flowers resemble large strawberry- 

 blossoms, and have a top-shaped, five-lobed calyx, many 

 yellow stamens and one pistil, becoming a large, leathery 

 akene. The smell and foliage attract attention and the 

 shrub has many names, such as Bear-mat and Kittikit, 

 or Kit-kit-dizze, so-called by the Indians. Bears do not 

 eat it, so the name Bear-clover is poor, and Tarweed 

 belongs to another plant. It is used medicinally. 



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