ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
. A charming kind, delicate both in 
edwood Rose ; ‘A 3 
Rosa gymnocarpa fOliage and flower, usually growing in 
Pink shady, mountain woods. The slender 
Spring, summer bush is from one to three feet high, with 
Northwest dark brown stems, armed with some 
straight, slender thorns, and light green leaves, usually 
with quite a number of neat little leaflets, smooth and thin — 
in texture. The flowers are an inch or less across, usually 
single, with light yellow centers and bright pink petals, 
very clean and fresh in tone, usually deeper towards the 
margins. The sepals are not leafy at the tips, the flower- 
stalks, and sometimes the leaf-stalks also, are covered with 
small, dark, sticky hairs and the buds are tipped with 
carmine. Neither leaves nor flowers are fragrant. 
Micuntadl mies This is the only kind. In open places, 
Ph cenchiicn in the Sierra forests, the ground is often 
foliolésa carpeted for acres with the feathery 
White foliage of this charming shrub, sprinkled 
Summer 
all over with pretty white flowers. Moun- 
tain Misery does not at first seem an 
appropriate name for so attractive a plant, but when we 
walk through the low, green thickets we find not only that 
the tangled branches catch our feet but that the whole 
plant is covered with a strong-smelling, resinous substance, 
which comes off on our clothes in a most disagreeable 
manner. Ona warm day the forest is filled with the pecu- 
liar, medicinal fragrance and when, later in the season, we 
unpack our camping outfit we are apt to be puzzled by the 
smell of ‘“‘Pond’s Extract’’ which our clothes exhale. 
The shrub is usually less than two feet high, with downy, 
evergreen foliage, the numerous small leaflets so minutely 
subdivided and scalloped that they have the appearance 
of soft ferns. The flowers resemble large strawberry- 
blossoms, and have a top-shaped, five-lobed calyx, many 
yellow stamens and one pistil, becoming a large, leathery 
akene. The smell and foliage attract attention and the 
shrub has many names, such as Bear-mat and Kittikit, 
or Kit-kit-dizze, so-called by the Indians. Bears do not 
eat it, so the name Bear-clover is poor, and Tarweed 
belongs to another plant. It is used medicinally. 
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