ROSE FAMILY. %osaceae. 



A handsome shrub, from three to fiv 

 Hardback, . ' 



Steeple-bush feet hl g h > Wlth rather coarse leaves 

 Spiral Douglasii smooth, but with a dull surface, and pal 

 Pink with close down on the under side, an 



Walh^Ore^Cal bearin S man y beautiful compact spires c 

 small, pink flowers, warm in tone an 

 deeper in color towards the center, with numerous, lon| 

 pink stamens, which give a very feathery appearanct 

 The flowers are slightly sweet-smelling and bloom first a 

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

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

 the top, deepening below to the raspberry-pink of the bud: 

 This grows along the edges of meadows and near brooks. 



There are two kinds of Chamaebatiaria, both westerr 

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

 about sixty stamens; the pistils five, more or less unite( 



A pretty and unusual-looking shrul 



Fern-bush about three feet h{ h with reddish steff 



Chamaebattaria *'>'-...-, 



millefdlium an( ^ shreddy bark, the downy leaves, pa. 



(Spiraea) yellowish-green in color, arranged 



White intervals along the branches in so: 



feathery bunches. The flowers are lit 

 small strawberry blossoms, slightly frj 

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

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

 overhanging the depths. 



There is only one kind of Coleogyne. 



The plateau in the Grand Canyon 

 Coleogyne , . ., . , , . , , 



ramosissima covered for miles with this low shru 



Yellow which gives the landscape its characteri 



Spring tic pale desert coloring. The flowers, ov 



Southwest half an inch across> w i t h one or two pa i 



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

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

 only four, spreading sepals, bright yellow inside, two 

 them pointed and the alternate two more round in shap 

 The ovary is enclosed in a yellow, hollow, urn-shap< 

 receptacle, surrounded by numerous stamens inserted 

 its base, the yellow anthers with threadlike filameni 



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