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 
aeicae six feet high, with pretty, almost smooth, 
ssasadlaist bie bright green leaves, with large stipules. 
(Physocar pus) The flowers are sweet-smelling, about half 
White an inch across, with cream-white petals, 
ieee, Utah, 224 form very beautiful and conspicuous 
iene 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. 
Renthe Pine There are two kinds of Fallugia. This 
Falligia paradéxa is usually a low undershrub, but in the 
White Grand Canyon, on the plateau, it is a fine 
Spring 
bush, four or five feet high, with pale 
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 the 
ends of the branches. Individually, they are handsomer 
than the flowers of the Cliff Rose, but not nearly so effective, 
as the bloom is much more scattered. The calyx-tube is 
downy inside and the five sepals alternate with five, small, 
long, narrow bractlets. The hairy pistils are on a small 
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