ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
A handsome shrub, from three to five 
Hardhack, : : 
Steeple-bush feet high, with rather coarse leaves, 
Spirata Dowglasii smooth, but with a dull surface, and pale 
Pink with close down on the under side, and 
Spring, summer 
Wash., Oreg., Cal. bearing many beautiful, compact spires of 
small, pink flowers, warm in tone and 
deeper in color towards the center, with numerous, long, 
pink stamens, which give a very feathery appearance. 
The flowers are slightly sweet-smelling and bloom first at 
the top of the cluster, so that the effect of the whole spire, 
which is six or eight inches long, is light pink and fuzzy at 
the top, deepening below to the raspberry-pink of the buds. 
This grows along the edges of meadows and near brooks. 
There are two kinds of Chamaebatiaria, both western; 
low shrubs; the flowers with five sepals, five petals, and 
-about sixty stamens; the pistils five, more or less united. 
A pretty and unusual-looking shrub, 
roel a ayig 2b0ut three feet high, with reddish stems 
nillefoliume and shreddy bark, the downy leaves, pale 
(Spiraea) yellowish-green in color, arranged at 
White intervals along the branches in soft 
7 IE feathery bunches. The flowers are like 
small strawberry blossoms, slightly fra- 
grant, and form pretty clusters. This grows on rocks, along 
the rim of the Grand Canyon, clinging to the edge and 
overhanging the depths. 
There is only one kind of Coleogyne. 
The plateau in the Grand Canyon is 
Coleégyne : : : 
\ ad Gseias covered for miles with this low shrub, 
Yellow which gives the landscape its characteris- 
Spring tic pale desert coloring. The flowers, over 
Southwest 
half an inch across, with one or two pairs 
of three-lobed bracts at base, grow singly at the tips of the 
twigs and, unlike most of this family, have no petals and 
only four, spreading sepals, bright yellow inside, two of 
them pointed and the alternate two more round in shape. 
The ovary is enclosed in a yellow, hollow, urn-shaped 
receptacle, surrounded by numerous stamens inserted on 
its base, the yellow anthers with threadlike filaments. 
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