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 

 Ninebark gix feet h - h with pretty> a l mO st smooth, 



Opulaster _ 1 --11 j.' i 



malvtceus bright green leaves, with large stipules. 



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



White an inch across, with cream-white petals, 



Summer an( ^ f orm y beautiful and conspicuous 

 Northwest, Utah, . , 



Ariz 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 



Failugia paradoxa is usually a low undershrub, but in the 

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



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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 t 

 ends of the branches. Individually, they are handsom 

 than the flowers of the Cliff Rose, but not nearly so eff ectiv 

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

 downy inside and the five sepals alternate with five, sma 

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

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