The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-15


which are so pretty in winter bouquets.
Senecio (?l is very common plant, send
Ing up in earliest spring a stout scape
sheathed by large bracts and at its summit
cyrne OF small heads of dull. purplish
flowers. which are very fragrant. The
leaves all from the roots. are round. PAL
maseiy cleft, and come later than the
flowers
Arnica uudicaulis is cur only species OF
composite flower with yellow rays.
Aster novae angllae. or New England
aster, is the last flower 70 bloom IN the
autumn. Il has violet purple rays. is very
common and gladly welcomed when other
flowers are gone
Artemesia ludovicana. or western mug
wort is a plant which looks some like and
smells more like wormwood.
Erigeron philadeiphicum, or common
fieabane. IS a common wild daisy With
many rose purple rays.
Erigeron 81 Is another species of the
daisy called wild marguerites. which they
closely resemble.
Achillae milifolium is the common white
yarrow.
Maruta cotula. or mayweed is an old ac-
Quaintance.
Hieracium gronovi or hawkweed, Is
just about as inviting a plant as the name
would suggest.
Nabulus %. or rattlesnake root. - quite
branching stems, each flower in the head
having q white strap shaped corolla and
the stamens purple. The leaves are hal
herd shaped with broad wings on the petit
ole.
Another species is a beautiful plant from
Silver gulch. the whole plant except the
upper surface of the alternate oval leaves
white wooiiy. the upper surface OF the
leaves being dark glossy green. Each
leafy stem rises ten inches high and bears
a corymb OF eight heads on slender pedi-
cells. no rays. true flowers yellow, not nu-
snerous, fragrant.
Campanula Family.
We have one species Of the campanula
family
Campanula rotundifolia. or harebell, Is
the pretty blue bell we all love. Campan-
ula Is Latin dimunitive for 'bell." The
round leaves are from the roots and die
early.
Heath Family.
I have ten species Of the heath family,
but there are at least two more growing
here of which I have not yet obtained
specimens.
Vaccinium ovatum is the blue buckle
berry bush. growing from four to six feet
high and bearing quantities OF large. ed:-
bic berries, which are sour tasting and
not like the Eastern low huckieberry.
Vaccinium parvifolium or red buckle
berry bush does not grow so large, and
has light red edible berries.
Menziesia ferruginea Is a bush from Sill
yer gulch, the whole surface clammy,
giandular and exhaling a very peculiar
odor, flowers resembling the huck.eberry.
Bryanthus empertiformis Is a low mat
ting shrub, the branches th!ckly set with
linear blunt evergreen leaves a half inch
long and terminating in a cyrne of small,
bell-shaped. rose-purpie flowers on sien-
der pedieels. Very odd and pretty.
Cassiope mertensiana. species OF
heather, is sad to be like the Scotch
heather. Its leaves are like little COM
pressed scales. crowded on the stem in
four ranks. The white flowers from the
axiles of the upper leaves are quite snowy.
Gauitheria shalon, or sallai. a pretty
little shrub with glossy evergreen leaves
about three inches long. bears a custer O.
dark blue berries in autumn.
Penstenion menzesit, or beard tongue, IS
pretty little plant from up in the hills
with small. glossy leaves and the flowers
large, corolla rose purple, irregular, an
inch long and quite pretty.
Moneses urifiora. or ohe-iowered winter
green. is delicate little plant with round
ish leaves and scape four inches high.
bearing a beautiful white. star-shaped
flower two-thirds of an inch across.
Chimaphila -, or princes pine,
IS also small plant, opposite lanceolate
leaves n half inch long near the base
scape bearing one white or pinklsh flower.
stamens not purple. Its name means
flower OF winter
Monotropa unihora, Indian pipe or
corpse plant. Is the most peculiar plant
ever saw: indeed, II did not seem like a
growing plant. II looks as IL made en-
tirely OF pinkish white wax is the shape
OF a small clay pipe in outline, has bracts
along the upright stem in place OF leaves,
n A. ort,. Ill a
of the pipe. Either name is very appro-
pirate.
Three species Of which / have no speci-
mems are low-bush huckleberry, small
cranberry growing farther down the val
/ ley. and shrub with large flowers at
least an inch across. the five petals flesh
colored. with pink veins.
Plantnin Family.
We have two species OF piantain.
Piantago major or common piantain, Is
the one from which / used 10 pick thu
large leaves for grandpa when was q
child. 10 put in his hat on q very warm,
sunny day.
Plan,ago ianceolata, or rib grass. is the
one out OF whose long, slender scapes the
children make little play cradles
Primrose Family.
Our one specimen OF the primrose family
is Trientals europaea, variety Iatifolia or
Star-noWer. a beauUrui little plant rising
by a slender stem from the ground, at the
top bearing & whorl OF ovate, taper point
ed leaves. and from one 10 four pink and
white star-shaped flowers on slender
pediceIs.
Figw6rt Family.
There are six members OF the fgwort
family, all common.
Veronica, otticinats, or common speed
well, is a low spreading plant, and I'm sum-
me: 50 full OF littls light blue flowers that
il looks almost as II a Bit OF the blue sky
had dropped down and was resting upon
mother earth.
Mimu.us ringens. or monkey flower, is
much preit.er than the name would sug-
gest. Its branching, leafy stems bear
large violet-purple flowers which get their
name from the "grinning'' corolla, nkened
10 an ape: leaves OK my specimen parallel
yeaned.
Mimulus lutens has larger. bright yellow
flowers with brown spots. very beautiful
for wild flowers
Mimulus moscha.us IS much smaller,
clammy-villous, flowers light yellow and