ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
The very small, narrow, toothless leaves are evergreen, 
leathery and stiff, opposite, grayish in color and imper- 
ceptibly downy, clustered in small separate bunches along 
the rigid twigs, which are set almost at right angles to the 
reddish-gray branches and rather swollen at the joints. 
The whole shrub is from two feet to four feet high, stiff, 
almost thorny, and rather forbidding in appearance, but 
the odd little flowers are pretty. 
There are several kinds of Argentina, differing from 
Potentilla in the leaflets and the style. 
This forms large straggling clumps of 
Silver-weed many, pale, downy stems, lying on the 
Argentina ground and rooting at the joints, like 
Anserina ; ° 
(Potentilla) strawberry runners, with handsome foliage 
Yellow and pretty flowers. The leaves are rich 
Spring, summer, green on the upper side and covered with 
autumn ilk hi =e 
North Amesica,) “KY W te down on the under, giving a 
an silvery appearance, and the flowers are 
an inch or more across, bright yellow, 
with centers of the same shade, and have long flower- 
stalks, sometimes as much as a foot tall. This is common 
and conspicuous in wet meadows and also grows in Europe 
and Asia. 
There are only a few kinds of Dryas, shrubby plants, 
living in cold and arctic regions. The Latin name means 
““wood-nymph.” 
, This is a charming little plant, from 
Alpine Avens “ 3 
Drsas octopétala  tWO to five inches tall, forming low, matted 
White clumps of many branching stems, lying 
Summer on the ground and woody at the base, and 
Northwest, etc. any stiffish leaves, with prominent veins, 
dark green and smooth on the upper side and white with 
close down on the under, their dark tones setting off the 
pure-white flowers, which have downy flower-stalks and 
are about an inch across, with about eight petals, a golden 
center and the calyx covered with sticky hairs. The seed- 
vessels are large and feathery. This grows in alpine places, 
across the continent, reaching an altitude of fourteen 
thousand feet, and in Europe and Asia. 
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