LOASA FAMILY. Loasaceae. 



five inches across, with five, broad, light yellow petals and 

 quantities of very long stamens, making a beautiful center. 

 Five of the stamens have broadened filaments, resembling 

 narrow petals, the style is three-cleft, and the capsule is 

 oblong, containing many flat, winged seeds. These plants 

 usually grow in dry stream-beds and are not rare, but 

 through various accidents I have never been able to secure 

 a drawing of either this or the next. 



. A more slender plant than the last, with 



Mentztfia magnificent flowers, two and a half inches 



Lindleyi across, which open in the evening and 



Yellow remain open during the following morning. 



CalTfrmi They have five ' broad P etals with pointed 



tips, bright golden-yellow, colored with 

 vermilion at the base, and handsome yellow centers. 

 The filaments are very slender, some of the outer ones 

 slightly broadened at base, and the style is not cleft. This 

 grows in the mountains. There is a drawing of it in Miss 

 Parsons's Wild Flowers of California. It is called Buena 

 Muier, or Good Woman, by the Spanish Californians, 

 because the leaves stick so tightly to one. 

 MenfM'a ^ n dd-looking plant, with very pale, 



nultifldra straggling stems and thickish leaves, a 



Yellow pretty shade of pale green, all exceedingly 



Spring disagreeable to touch. The buds are 



Southwest, Utah, tipped with salmon-color and the flowers 

 are an inch and a half to two inches across, 

 with a long green calyx-tube with buff lobes, ten petals, 

 bright yellow inside and pale buff outside, and pretty, 

 fuzzy, yellow centers. They open in the evening, about 

 five o'clock, and the plant would be pretty, in spite of its 

 harsh foliage, if more of the flowers were out at one time. 

 This is common along roadsides in the Southwest and in 

 New Mexico and Colorado. 



This has several pale greenish or pinkish 

 Mentzlha 



gradienta stems, from a few inches to a foot and a 



Yellow half tall, which look smooth but are very 



Spring harsh to the touch, springing from a cluster 



Southwest of stiff> harsh> dull-green leaves, variously 



lobed or toothed. The flowers are nearly an inch across, 

 with glossy, bright yellow petals and beautiful, fuzzy, 

 yellow centers, and are very delicate and pretty. 

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