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

friends some Idea o. the saxe Oh d HcSissn
tree, Well, when we held II up for iUspec-
| ton ire doctor studied on * for minute.
/ then looked I'D at me and said: We'll.
| Iuvs. IL I didn't know you 10 be a girl Of
| ssyictsss veracity I should Be tempted 20
/ doubt that a tree ever grew to ~ that
/, space.
| wes. for four years." Then they had the
| laugh on me-
| Pulse Family.
+, I have found seven specimens Of ths
| pulse family, apparently growing wild, al
l though never knew before that the sweet
| clover was found in the wild state.
| Lupinus perennis, or wild lupine, gets It's
| name from lupus" wolf. because the
| iupines are thought 70 destroy the fertility
| OF the soil. II Is a pretty plant, having
| long racene OF purplish blue flowers.
Crotalar!a sagirtalis. or rattie-box, IL
| pretty plant from Marble gulci. mine hav-
| ing blue ard white flowers. otherwise ike
| the one named. which has yellow flowers.
MeiIntus alba. or white sweet clover.
gets It's Latin name from two Greek words
for honey aud ''iotus." also Melilotus
ofsieInalis. or yellow sweet clover, Is IA
raiiar TO all.
Trifoliun pra;ense. or red clover. grows
very large here.
Trifolium ref'exum. or buffalo clover. has
pretty rose-red and whitish howers. 1t.
too, grows luxuriantly here.
Trifoliam repens is the common white
ciover.
Rose Family.
The rose family is conspicuous in having
the largest representation Of any family in
the herbarium. there being seventeen spe-
cies.
Spiraea opuiifo,la. or nine-bark. is a
pretty shrub, bearing a large corymb OF
"a
from the loose bark.
Spiraea tomentosa, or bareback is
shrub not common here, but found more
often up higher In the hills, It's rose pur
pie flowers are crowded in long terminal
panicle.
Spiraea 90 Is another species of bareback
having its flowers in clustered corymb.
Mine has oyats blunt leaves. whitish
downy beneath.
Spiraea aruncus, or goatsbeard, is one OF
the most beautiful ana most graceful
plants ever saw growing wild. 1t is an
herb but grows from three to five feet high
with very large leaves Of dscompoundea
leaflets which grow smaller and finer to-
ward the top, the long slender spikes OF
tiny white flowers beginning in the axiles
of the upper leaves and terminating the
plant in a great compound panicle Of
creamy white. My specimen measures
twenty-five inches as the length of the
panicle. To any one who has seen our
| nimhle-footed mountain goat with Its long
| white beard the name Of this plant goats
beard seems very applicable.
Splraea pretinata is not In my botany
| and was analysed for me by Prof. Green
| man, OF Harvard. hence j have no COM
| mon name for It, 1t IS about six inches
| high and has small cut-toothed leaves
| along the stem, which terminates in a
| ieafy cluster of small white flowers. Ali
1 hx ~ Sg,frQ au a y,~.t n~ Ices fro
| grant.
| Geum yernum, or spring avens. IS rather
| coarse plant with sinai, yellow flowers
| and rather large palmately cleft leaves.
| which are quite prettily marked with dark
| purple spots.
| Potentila anserina. or silverweed. is a
coarse plant whose ripeued seeds are like
| little burs that adhere to ones clothing.
| Fragaria chilensis is the common Pacific
coast strawberry. which thrives well in
| this mountain region.
| Rubus nutkanus. or Towering raspberry.
| Is a beautiful shrub having large fve-lobed
| leaves and flowers two inches across.
| white and quite fragrant, The bright red
berries are rather TOO seedy 10 be liked for
table use. They are called 'ihimble ber-
| ries"
| Rubus spectabilis, or salmon berry, has
| fruit ranging from light yellow to amber.
| bright red. dark and sometimes almost
1 n, u
| color and longer than the sepals; the three
| leaflets ovate. sharp pointed.
| Rubus triforus. or dwarf raspberry, Is
l pretty little plan. trailing on the ground
| IN shady places. VITA one to three white
| flowers on each pedunc.e, the fruit taste
| less.
| Rubus ursinus. low blackberry or dew
| berry, Is getting quite common where the
l ground has been burned over.
/ Poteremis stitchsnse (see illustration) Is
| an odd-iooking plant from Marble pass
| with leaves like Wild rose and spike of
| greenish flowers like q common plantain
| Prof. Greenman writes that * Is an inter
| es,ing specimen that he thinks is south
ern extension of plant found further
/ north.
Rosa gymnocarpa. our only wild rose,
| only one flower on a branch and that not
more than an inch across. leaflets small,
| from 5 20 I.
Amelanchler aInifolla Is the common
| June or service berry. which / welcomed
| as an old acquaintance.
| Pyrus rivularts, wild crab apple, tree
growing from fifteen to twenty-five feet
high, leaves oval, sharp-pointed flowers n
| half inch or moro across, pink and white
fruit pear shaped. only half an inch long:
| indeed, II seems more like a wild pear than
| wild crabapple.
Pyrus sanbucifo,ia. or mountain ash. Is
1
| mountains. but was highly priced as a
| shade tree In the middle states The large
| clusters of bright red berries often weigh
| the top branches over 10 the ground.
| where the bears deligh; 10 feast on them.
saxifrnGe Family.
| The saxifrage family. Prof Greenman
| writes, IS quite variable III this locality. 7
| have nine species and feel sure that this
| is not complete. The name comes from a
| Latin word meaning rock-hreake- many
| species growing IN the elefts OF rocks.
R!bes ~ is a small priclSiy gooseberry
| whose fruit Is OF no use Cor food.
| RIDES prostraium, or fetid currant, "a a
| common shrub larger than the cultivated
| currant. bearing in fruit a long racine OF
| blue black berries not edible, the whole
| plant when bruised giving out an unpleas-
| ant skunk-like oder. However 1t Is 8
| srieu6 20 the prcspectors. its smooth stems
| often being great hep in climbing steep
| declivities.
Parnassa asarisolia, or grass-of-p arnas.
| sas, is a beautiful plant. II has kidney
| shaped leaves on slender pe;ioleS. all from,
| the roots except q tiny sessi,e leaf half way