WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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1142. California Hare- 

 Bell 



1143. 



1144. 



1145. 



Campanula prenanthoides Wooded hills near the coast; 



Sierras. 



Campanula Scouleri 

 Campanula exigua 



Githopsis specularioides 



and var. 



Redwood region. 



Summits of peaks of the 

 Coast Ranges. 



Low annual (one to six inches), herbage covered with short, spreading hairs. 

 Leaves sessile, linear and coarsely toothed. Calyx resembling corn-cockle. Purplish 

 flowers with a white center. Open ground, Coast Ranges and south ; Plumas 

 County. 



1146. 



1147. Venus Lookim 

 Glass 



1148. 



Heterocodon rariflorum 



Specularia biflora 



Specularia perfoliata 



A very delicate little an- 

 nual with leafy branched 

 stems and pale blue cor- 

 olla. Open grassy places 

 Coast Ranges and Sierras. 

 Southern California. 



Annual with leafy slender 

 stems. Leaves sessile or 

 clasping. Flowers in the 

 axils, blue. Open hills of 

 the Coast Ranges ; Inter- 

 ior Valley. 



Plumas Countv. 



HEATH FAMILY 



ERICACEAE 



This family always commands a great deal of respect from plant enthusiasts. 

 Its members show no weedy traits although some are regarded with suspicion by 

 the stockmen as being poisonous. The Rhododendrons and the Azaleas are prized 

 for their showy flowers both in and out of cultivation. Large quantities of the 

 berries of the manzanitas are eaten by hogs on the north coast ranges and formerly 

 supplied as much food to the Indians. Then there are huckleberries and blue- 

 berries and bilberries which certainly have done their share to brighten the homes 

 of Californians. The manzanitas, too, are abundantly represented and our hand- 

 some tree, Bret Harte's "Robin Hood of the Western Wood," the Madrona, is still 

 plentiful among us, and last, but not least, the snow plant. 



1149. Huckleberry 



Yaccinium ovatum 



U50. Bilberry 



1151. 



Redwood region. Berries 

 dark purple, gathered in 

 quantities and shipped by 

 boat to San Francisco 

 from the northern coast 

 counties. A favorite with 

 florists for greenery. 



Redwood region. Berries 

 red. 



Dwarf shrub (3 to 6 in.), 

 wet places, High Sierras. 



Low shrub. Sierras, 6000 

 to 7000 feet. Blue berry 

 with a bloom. 

 1153. Madrono Arbutus Menziesii 



Shrub or tree. Occasional specimens found as much as twenty-three feet in 

 circumference and 100 feet high with branches several feet in diameter. Wood 

 hard, makes good charcoal for gunpowder manufacture. Leaves handsome, large 

 and shiny. Flowers in white clusters, berry orange, becoming vermillion. Xot 

 very palatable. Coast Ranges and western Sierra foothills. 



1152. 



Yaccinium parvifolium 



Yaccinium Mvrtillus var. 



Yaccinium occidentale 



