ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
There are only a few kinds of Adenostoma, evergreen 
shrubs, with small, narrow, resinous leaves and clusters of 
small, white flowers. 
aide. This is a very attractive shrub, from 
NE two to ten feet high, with long, slender 
Adenéstoma branches, clothed with close bunches of 
fasciculatum leaves and bearing large clusters of tiny 
toh flowers, something like Spiraea. They 
California havea feathery, creamy appearance, owing 
to the pale yellow stamens, and the olive- 
green foliagesets them off to perfection, theeffect of the whole 
being very graceful, as the slender, flower-tipped branches 
sway to and fro in the wind. This is the most abundant 
and characteristic shrub of the higher Coast Ranges and 
Sierra Nevada Mountains and sometimes covers miles of 
mountain slopes, looking a good deal like heather when it 
is not in bloom. When the chaparral is composed entirely 
of this shrub it is called chamisal. A. sparsifolium of 
southern California, has scattered leaves and larger flowers. 
It is very fragrant and used medicinally by Spanish Cali- 
fornians and Indians, who call it Yerba del Pasmo, or 
“convulsion herb.” 
There are many kinds of Spiraea, natives of the north 
temperate zone; shrubs, without stipules and with clusters 
of white or pink flowers. 
Piattopihiecdow. This is an attractive plant, from one 
Siupied to three feet tall, with slender, reddish- 
Spiraea corymbosa brown stems, with but few branches, and 
White smooth, bright green leaves, paler on the 
Spring, summer under side. The small flowers are cream- 
Northwest, etc. : : ar 
white, with pinkish buds, and form very 
pretty, feathery, flat-topped clusters, about three inches 
across. This is found on banks and rocky places, in the 
mountains, and grows also in the East. 
An attractive plant, but not so pretty 
Seba as the last. It is about the same height, 
Siomsdota (8. - Dut more branching, with dark bluish- 
betulaefolia in part) green leaves, somewhat pale on the under 
Pink, white side. The flowers are white or pale pink, 
Spring, summer With deep pink buds, and form long 
Cerca at clusters, not so feathery as the last, because 
the stamens are not solong. This grows in the mountains. 
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