A Popular California Flora Or Manual of Botany for Beginners
A Popular California Flora Or Manual of Botany for Beginners
Volney Rattan
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R. Occidentale, Gr. (AZALEA. ) A deciduous shrub, 2 to 6 ft. High; leaves obovate-oblong, bright green and shining above; corolla minutely viscid-pubescent out- side, white, the upper lobe yellowish inside; the narrow funnel-form tube equaling the deeply 5-cleft slightly irregular limb; stamens and style much exserted, curved. The showy fragrant flowers are sometimes nearly three inches long; rarely pinkish. R. CALIFORNICUM, Hook. , is a larger evergreen shrub, with large bell-shaped rose-purpl...e flowers - a true Rhododendron, probably not found south of Mendocino County. PLUMBAGINACEJE. (LEADWORT FAMILY. ) 71 6. CHIMAPHILA, Pursh. PIPSISSEWA. Corolla of rotately spreading, orbicular and concave petals. Stamens 10. Style very short, inversely conical, nearly immersed in the depressed ovary; stigma broad, its border somewhat 5-crenate. C. Umbellata, Nutt. A nearly herbaceous evergreen, 6 to 18 inches high; the usually whorled leaves oblanceolate, bright green; peduncle bearing 3 to 7 white or flesh-colored, waxy flowers.
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