HYDRANGEA FAMILY. Hydrangeaceae. 
yellow or red at the base and slightly irregular, the three 
upper petals being narrower than the two lower. The 
anthers are orange; ovary white or pinkish; calyxes and 
buds purplish-red. This grows among rocks in mountains. 
HYDRANGEA FAMILY. Hydrangeaceae. 
Shrubs or trees, with opposite leaves and no stipules. 
The flowers are in clusters and usually perfect, but some- 
times those at the margins of the clusters are without pistils 
or stamens and larger than those in the middle; the calyx 
usually with four to ten sepals, and in sterile flowers often 
conspicuously enlarged; the petals four to ten; the stamens 
eight to many; the ovary wholly or partly inferior; the 
styles separate or united, sometimes lacking;. the fruit a 
capsule. Many very ornamental garden shrubs, such as 
Deutzia and Hydrangea, are included in this family. 
_ There are several kinds of Fendlera, natives of North 
America; shrubs, with white or pink flowers, with four 
sepals and four petals, the latter with claws. The eight 
stamens have two-forked filaments and the ovary is partly 
inferior, with four styles. 
Féndlera rupicola. Among the many beautiful plants to be 
White, pink found in the Grand Canyon one of the 
Spring most conspicuous is the Fendlera. Itisa 
Ariz., Utah, Nev. +21] handsome shrub, growing along the 
upper part of Bright Angel trail, and in May it is covered 
with charming white blossoms. These flowers measure 
an inch across, and have cream-white or pale pink petals, 
narrowing to a claw at the base, and purplish sepals, and 
they grow in clusters of three or four, mixed with pink 
buds, on the ends of short branches. The small oblong 
leaves have three nerves and the wood is tough and gray, 
with deeply furrowed bark. Though their scent is rather 
unpleasant, the flowers are Iovely and look just like some 
novel variety of fruit-blossom, but this resemblance is 
deceptive for they produce nothing but dry pods. 
There are a good many kinds of Philadelphus, natives 
of North America, Asia, and Europe; shrubs, with large, 
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