LOASA FAMILY. Loasaceae. 
five inches across, with five, broad, light yellow petals and 
quantities of very long stamens, making a beautiful center. 
Five of the stamens have broadened filaments, resembling 
narrow petals, the style is three-cleft, and the capsule is 
oblong, containing many flat, winged seeds. These plants 
usually grow in dry stream-beds and are not rare, but 
through various accidents I have never been able to secure 
a drawing of either this or the next. 
: A more slender plant than the last, with 
Evening Star 
Mentzdlia magnificent flowers, two and a half inches 
Lindleyi across, which open in the evening and 
Yellow remain open during the following morning. 
Summer 
They have five, broad petals, with pointed 
tips, bright golden-yellow, colored with 
vermilion at the base, and handsome yellow centers. 
The filaments are very slender, some of the outer ones 
slightly broadened at base, and the style is not cleft. This 
grows in the mountains. There is a drawing of it in Miss 
Parsons’s Wild Flowers of California. It is called Buena 
Muier, or Good Woman, by the Spanish Californians, - 
because the leaves stick so tightly to one. 
An odd-looking plant, with very pale, 
California 
Mentzéli «ine 
ee straggling stems and thickish leaves, a 
Yellow pretty shade of pale green, all exceedingly 
Spring disagreeable to touch. The buds are 
ereaneet Utah, tipped with salmon-color and the flowers 
are an inch and a half to two inches across, 
with a long green calyx-tube with buff lobes, ten petals, 
bright yellow inside and pale buff outside, and pretty, 
fuzzy, yellow centers. They open in the evening, about 
' five o’clock, and the plant would be pretty, in spite of its 
harsh foliage, if more of the flowers were out at one time. 
This is common along roadsides in the Southwest and in 
New Mexico and Colorado. ‘War 
This has several pale greenish or pinkish 
Mentzéli : 
Geis stems, from a few inches to a foot and a 
Yellow half tall, which look smooth but are very 
Spring harsh to the touch, springing from a cluster 
Southwest 
of stiff, harsh, dull-green leaves, variously 
lobed or toothed. The flowers are nearly an inch across, 
with glossy, bright yellow petals and beautiful, fuzzy, 
yellow centers, and are very delicate and pretty. | 
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