ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



A charming kind, delicate both ii 

 Redwood Rose 



Tfdso gymnocdrja foli age and flower, usually growing n 

 Pink shady, mountain woods. The slende 



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

 Northwest dar j, k rown ste ms, armed with sorm 



straight, slender thorns, and light green leaves, usualb 

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

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

 single, with light yellow centers and bright pink petals 

 very clean and fresh in tone, usually deeper towards tfo 

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

 stalks, and sometimes the leaf-stalks also, are covered wit! 

 small, dark, sticky hairs and the buds are tipped wit] 

 carmine. Neither leaves nor flowers are fragrant. 



This is the only kind. In open places 

 Mountain Misery . 



ChamaebMa in the Sierra forests, the ground is oftei 

 Jolioldsa carpeted for acres with the feather 



White foliage of this charming shrub, sprinkle* 



u , m r mer . all over with pretty white flowers. Moun 



California 



tain Misery does not at first seem ai 



appropriate name for so attractive a plant, but when w 

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

 the tangled branches catch our feet but that the whol 

 plant is covered with a strong-smelling, resinous substance 

 which comes off on our clothes in a most disagreeabl 

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

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

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

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

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

 evergreen foliage, the numerous small leaflets so minutel 

 subdivided and scalloped that they have the appearanc 

 of soft ferns. The flowers resemble large strawberry 

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

 yellow stamens and one pistil, becoming a large, leather 

 akene. The smell and foliage attract attention and t 

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

 or Kit-kit-dizze, so-called by the Indians. Bears do nc 

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

 belongs to another plant. It is used medicinally. 



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