ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



There are only a few kinds of Adenostoma, evergreen 

 shrubs, with small, narrow, resinous leaves and clusters of 

 small, white flowers. 



. This is a very attractive shrub, from 



v/namise, 



Greasewood two to ten * eet m g n > Wltn l n g> slender 



Adenostoma branches, clothed with close bunches of 



fasciculatum leaves and bearing large clusters of tiny 



g r ? n e flowers, something like Spiraea. They 



California have a feathery, creamy appearance, owing 



to the pale yellow stamens, and the olive- 

 green foliage sets them off to perfection , the effect of the whole 

 being very graceful, as the slender, flower-tipped branches 

 sway to and fro in the wind. This is the most abundant 

 and characteristic shrub of the higher Coast Ranges and 

 Sierra Nevada Mountains and sometimes covers miles of 

 mountain slopes, looking a good deal like heather when it 

 is not in bloom. When the chaparral is composed entirely 

 of this shrub it is called chamisal. A. sparsifblium of 

 southern California, has scattered leaves and larger flowers. 

 It is very fragrant and used medicinally by Spanish Cali- 

 fornians and Indians, who call it Yerba del Pasmo, or 

 "convulsion herb." 



There are many kinds of Spiraea, natives of the north 

 temperate zone; shrubs, without stipules and with clusters 

 of white or pink flowers. 

 _, . -, This is an attractive plant, from one 



Flat-top Meadow- 

 sweet to three feet tall, with slender, reddish- 



Spirala corymbbsa brown stems, with but few branches, and 

 White smooth, bright green leaves, paler on the 



Spring, summer under s{de> The small flowers are crea m- 

 Northwest, etc. . 



white, with pinkish buds, and form very 



pretty, feathery, flat-topped clusters, about three inches 

 across. This is found on banks and rocky places, in the 

 mountains, and grows also in the East. 



An attractive plant, but not so pretty 



paa as the last * Jt is about the Same hei S ht > 



pyramidata (S. but more branching, with dark bluish- 

 bctulaejolia in part) green leaves, somewhat pale on the under 

 Pink, white side. The flowers are white or pale pink> 



Spring, summer w{th d {nk bud and form j 



Northwest 



clusters, not so feathery as the last, because 



the stamens are not so long. This grows in the mountains. 

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