ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
This is the only kind of Stellariopsis; perennial herbs; 
the leaves with many, minute, crowded, overlapping 
leaflets; the flowers white, in open clusters; bractlets, 
sepals, and petals five; stamens fifteen; pistil one, sur- 
rounded by bristles. 
The leaves of this odd little plant look 
Sloan like catkins, or the sleek, gray tails of 
PENS 1 Cae some little animal. They are cylindrical 
(Ivesia) in form, three or four inches long, com- 
White posed of many minute leaflets, crowded 
end closely around a long, central stem. 
These little leaflets, hardly more than 
green scales, are smothered with soft, white down, which 
gives the whole ‘‘tail’’ a silky, silvery-gray appearance. 
From the midst of a bunch of these curious leaves, which 
are mostly from the root, spring several very slender stems, 
widely branching above, from six to twelve inches tall, 
and at the ends of the branches are airy clusters of pretty 
little flowers, like tiny strawberry-blossoms. These little 
plants grow in sandy soil, at high altitudes, and are plenti- 
ful on the gravelly ‘“‘domes”’ around Yosemite. 
There are a good many kinds of Horkelia; perennial 
herbs, with compound leaves, usually with many leaflets, 
and flowers in clusters; calyx cup-shaped, or saucer-shaped, 
with five teeth and five bractlets; stamens ten; pistils two 
or many, with long slender styles, and borne on a receptacle 
like that of Potentilla, which these plants resemble, though 
the flowers are usually smaller, in closer clusters. 
Hpbi fésch A rather attractive plant, for the foliage 
White is pretty, though the flowers are not very 
Summer conspicuous. The rather stout, roughish 
Cal., Oreg., Nev. stem, often purplish, is from one to two 
feet tall and the leaves are rather dark green, slightly 
sticky and sometimes downy. The flowers are about half 
an inch across, with white petals, tinged with pink, and 
are well set off by the dark reddish or purplish calyxes and 
buds, but the petals’are too far apart, and there are not 
enough flowers out at one time, for the effect to be good. 
This varies a good deal in hairiness and there are several 
varieties. It is common in Yosemite. 
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