ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



A handsome shrub, from three to five 



Steeple-bush feet hi g h > wi . th rather COarSe leaVCS ' 



Spiraea Douglasii smooth, but with a dull surface, and pale 

 Pink with close down on the under side, and 



Spring, summer bearing many beautiful, compact spires of 

 Wash., Oreg., Cal. 



small, pink flowers, warm in tone and 



deeper in color towards the center, with numerous, long, 

 pink stamens, which give a very feathery appearance. 

 The flowers are slightly sweet-smelling and bloom first at 

 the top of the cluster, so that the effect of the whole spire, 

 which is six or eight inches long, is light pink and fuzzy at 

 the top, deepening below to the raspberry-pink of the buds. 

 This grows along the edges of meadows and near brooks. 



There are two kinds of Chamaebatiaria, both western; 



low shrubs; the flowers with five sepals, five petals, and 



about sixty stamens; the pistils five, more or less united. 



A pretty and unusual-looking shrub, 



Fern-bush about three feet high, with reddish stems 



Chamaebattdna 



millefulium anc ^ shreddy bark, the downy leaves, pale 



(Spiraea) yellowish-green in color, arranged at 



White intervals along the branches in soft 



Su . m o ^ r feathery bunches. The flowers are like 



small strawberry blossoms, slightly fra- 

 grant, and form pretty clusters. This grows on rocks, along 

 the rim of the Grand Canyon, clinging to the edge and 

 overhanging the depths. 



There is only one kind of Coleogyne. 



The plateau in the Grand Canyon is 



Coleogyne _ 



ramosissima covered for miles with this low shrub, 



Yellow which gives the landscape its characteris- 



Spring tic pale desert coloring. The flowers, over 



Southwest kalf an inc j 1 across> w i t h one or two pairs 



of three-lobed bracts at base, grow singly at the tips of the 

 twigs and, unlike most of this family, have no petals and 

 only four, spreading sepals, bright yellow inside, two of 

 them pointed and the alternate two more round in shape. 

 The ovary is enclosed in a yellow, hollow, urn-shaped 

 receptacle, surrounded by numerous stamens inserted on 

 its base, the yellow anthers with threadlike filaments 



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