BUCKWHEAT FAMILY. Polygonaceae. 
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pinkish anthers. The leaves are dull-green on the upper 
side and pale with close down on the under and grow ina 
cluster at the base. 
Butter Balls, These are attractive plants, with pretty 
Sacues With odd little balls of flowers, and are very 
Eriédgonum conspicuous on dry, rocky mesas. They 
orthocdulon have a number of slender, pale, downy 
Yellow, white : Fig: 
: stems, about ten inches tall, springing 
Spring, summer 
ictitecoct from a close clump of small, dull-green 
leaves, pale with down on both sides and 
the smaller ones almost white, and bearing at the tip a 
dense flower-cluster, about an inch and a half across, which 
is very fuzzy and pretty. The little flowers have cream- 
color, downy involucres, the outer sepals are broader than 
the inner, and the pedicels, stamens, and pistil are all the 
same color as the sepals, either very bright sulphur-yellow 
or cream-white, but not mixed on the same plant, and 
sometimes tinged with red. These flowers are very popu- 
lar with children in Idaho and they make necklaces of the 
fuzzy balls, something like ‘“‘daisy chains.” 
+: This is a big handsome plant, with a 
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coin anasilais thick, smooth stem, one or two feet tall 
White, yellow and woody at base, and with thickish 
Summer leaves, slightly downy, dark green in color 
Northwest on the upper side and white with close 
down on the under. The flowers form feathery, cream- 
white or yellow clusters, often more than six inches across, 
with red buds, and are beautiful and conspicuous on bare 
mountainsides, smelling of honey. 
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