Part 26

Scarlet Honeysuckle, 350

Scarlet Monkey-Flower, 360

Scarlet Paint-Brush, 344

Sea-Dahlia, 146

Self-Heal, 322

Service-Berry, 88

Shad-Bush, 90

Shasta Lily, 102

Shepherd's Purse, 78

Shooting-Stars, 204

Sierra Plum, 34

Sierra Primrose, 250

Silk-Tassel Tree, 370

Silver-weed, 175

Silkweed, 312

Si me quieres, no me quieres, 124

Skullcap, 270

Skunk-Cabbage, 108, 166

Snow-Berry, 225

Snow-Plant, 362

Snowy Lily-Bell, 54

Soap-Bush, 84, 258

Soap-Plant, 6, 82

Sour-Grass, 51

Southern Scarlet Larkspur, 364

Spanish Bayonet, 20, 70

Spanish Lily, 262

Spat'lum, 224

Spice-Bush, 373

Spineless Tuna, 225

Spreading Dogbane, 236

Spring-Blossom, 4

Squaw-Berry, 152

Squaw-Grass, 51

Squaw's Carpet, 326

Star-Flower, 202

Stickseed, 334

Sticky Monkey-Flower, 138

St. John's-Wort, 162

Stonecrop, 170

Strawberry Cactus, 24

Succory, 312

Sulphur-Flower, 178

Sun-Cups, 110

Sunflower, 157

Sunshine, 124

Tall Mountain Larkspur, 330

Tarweed, 92, 182, 188

Teasel, 386

Thimble-Berry, 24

Thistle-Poppy, 74

Thistle-Sage, 307

Thorn-Apple, 96

Tidy-Tips, 148

Tiger-Lily, 182, 185

Toad-Flax, 304

Tobacco-Root, 224

Tolguacha, 54

Toothwort, 4

Torosa, 114

Toyon, 90

Tree-Mallow, 226

Tree-Poppy, 118

Tree-Tobacco, 129

Tree-Yucca, 44

Trefoil Sumach, 152

Tuna, 170

Turban Cactus, 374

Turkey-Beard, 51

Turkish Rugging, 218

Turk's-head Cactus, 374

Twin-Berry, 122

Twining Hyacinth, 232

Umbrella-Plant, 242

Velvet Cactus, 357

Venegasia, 171

Vervenia, 282

Villela, 284

Violet Beard-Tongue, 308

Violet Nightshade, 268

Violet Snapdragon, 320

Virgin's Bower, 91

Wahoo, 68

Wake-Robin, 10

Washington Lily, 102

Water-Holly, 118

Water-Lily, 6

Western Boykinia, 81

Western Cardinal-Flower, 365

Western Goldenrod, 191

Western Spice-Bush, 352

Western Wall-Flower, 132

Whipplea, 32

Whispering Bells, 130

White Brodiaea, 156

White Daisy, 28

White Evening Primrose, 48

White Forget-me-not, 30

White Fritillary, 267

White Globe-Tulip, 54

White Layia, 28

White Nemophila, 39

White Owl's Clover, 52

White Sage, 66

White Sweet Clover, 156

White Tea-Tree, 84

White-veined Shinleaf, 100

Wild Bachelor's Button, 312

Wild Bouvardia, 178

Wild Bridal-Wreath, 85

Wild Broom, 152

Wild Buckwheat, 34

Wild Canterbury-Bell, 288

Wild Cherry, 36

Wild Coreopsis, 182

Wild Cucumber, 26

Wild Cyclamen, 204

Wild Date, 20

Wild Ginger, 310

Wild Gooseberry, 338

Wild Heliotrope, 282

Wild Hollyhock, 198

Wild Honeysuckle, 226

Wild Hyacinth, 262, 292

Wild Lantana, 292

Wild Morning-glory, 40

Wild Peony, 340

Wild Pie-Plant, 378

Wild Plum, 34

Wild Portulaca, 212

Wild White Lilac, 39

Wind-Flower, 18

Wind-Poppy, 129

Wintergreen, 75

Wood Anemone, 18

Wood-Balm, 42

Woodland Star of Bethlehem, 32

Wood Strawberry, 10

Woolly Blue-Curls, 316

Woolly Breeches, 128

Yarrow, 97

Yellow-Boy, 67

Yellow Daisy, 148

Yellow Forget-me-not, 128

Yellow Globe-Tulip, 144

Yellow Mariposa Tulip, 174

Yellow Pansy, 120

Yellow Pond-Lily, 184

Yellow-Root, 67

Yellow Sand-Verbena, 146

Yellow Star Tulip, 130

Yellow Sweet Clover, 156

Yerba Buena, 62

Yerba de Chivato, 91

Yerba del Indio, 354

Yerba del Pasmo, 61

Yerba Mansa, 76

Yerba Santa, 56

Yucca-Palm, 44

Zygadene, 6

INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS

PAGE

Aggregate fruit, xxx

Akene, xxx

Ament, xxviii

Anther, xxix

Axil, xxii

Berry, xxx

Blade, xxiii

Bract, xxvii

Bulb, xxiii

Calyx, xxviii

Capsule, xxx

Catkin, xxviii

Complete flower, xxviii

Compound leaf, xxiv

Corm, xxiii

Corolla, xxviii

Corymb, xxvii

Cyme, xxviii

Drupe, xxx

Essential organs, xxviii

Female flower, xxix

Filament, xxix

Flower-cluster, xxvii

Flower-head, xxviii

Follicle, xxx

Foot-stalk, xxiii

Fruit, xxix

Gourd, xxx

Imperfect flower, xxix

Inflorescence, xxvii

Internodes, xxii

Involucre, xxvii

Leaflet, xxiv

Leaves, xxiii

Legume, xxx

Male flower, xxix

Neutral flower, xxix

Nodes, xxii

Ovary, xxix

Palmate leaf, xxiv

Panicle, xxviii

Pedicel, xxvii

Peduncle, xxvii

Pepo, xxx

Perianth, xxviii

Perfect flower, xxix

Pericarp, xxix

Petals, xxviii

Petiole, xxiii

Pinnate leaf, xxiv

Pistil, xxix

Pistillate flower, xxix

Pollen, xxix

Pome, xxx

Raceme, xxvii

Rhizome, xxiii

Root, xxii

Rootstock, xxiii

Samara, xxx

Scape, xxvii

Sepals, xxviii

Simple leaf, xxiv

Solitary flower, xxvii

Spadix, xxviii

Spathe, xxviii

Spike, xxviii

Stamen, xxix

Staminate flower, xxix

Staminodia, xxix

Stem, xxii

Stigma, xxix

Stipules, xxiii

Style, xxix

Tuber, xxiii

Umbel, xxvii

Veinlets, xxiv

GLOSSARY

_Abortive_, defective or barren.

_Acuminate_, ending in a tapering point.

_Adnate_, growing to; or said of an anther whose cells are borne upon the sides of the apex of the filament.

_Appendage_, any superadded part.

_Appressed_, lying flat against or together for the whole length.

_Arborescent_, treelike; approaching the size of a tree.

_Attenuate_, slenderly tapering to a point.

_Auricle_, a small earlike lobe at the base of a leaf.

_Awn_, a bristle-shaped appendage.

_Barb_, a sharply reflexed point upon an awn, etc., like the barb of a fish-hook.

_Basifixed_, attached by the base or lower end.

_Beak_, a narrow or prolonged tip.

_Bifid_, two-cleft to the middle or thereabouts.

_Bilabiate_, two-lipped.

_Blade_, the expanded portion of a leaf, petal, etc.

_Bract_, one of the leaves of a flower-cluster.

_Bracteate_, furnished with bracts.

_Bractlet_, a bract of the ultimate grade; as one inserted _on_ a pedicel or ultimate flower-stalk instead of _under_ it.

_Bracteolate_, having bractlets.

_Bulbiferous_, bearing bulbs.

_Caducous_, dropping off very early.

_Campanulate_, bell-shaped.

_Capitate_, headlike, or collected in a head.

_Carina_, a salient longitudinal projection on the center of the lower face of an organ.

_Carinate_, furnished with a carina, or keel.

_Carpel_, a simple pistil, or one of the several parts of a compound one.

_Ciliate_, marginally fringed with hairs.

_Clavate_, club-shaped.

_Claw_, the narrowed base, or stalk, which some petals, etc., possess.

_Coalescing_, cohering; used properly in respect to similar parts.

_Column_, a body formed by the union of filaments (stamineal); or (in orchids) of the stamens and pistil.

_Confluent_, blended, or running together.

_Connate_, growing together; united in one.

_Connective_, the portion of the filament which connects or separates the cells of an anther.

_Connivent_, coming into contact or converging.

_Cordate_, heart-shaped.

_Coriaceous_, leathery.

_Corymb_, a flat-topped inflorescence flowering from the margin inward.

_Corymbose_, in corymbs, or in the form of a corymb.

_Cruciferous_, of four somewhat similar petals, spreading in the form of a cross.

_Cymose_, in cymes. (See _cyme_, in Explanation of Terms, p. xxviii.)

_Deciduous_, falling at the end of the season.

_Declined_, bent or curved downward or forward.

_Decumbent_, reclining, but with summit ascending.

_Decurrent_, running down the stem; applied to a leaf with blade prolonged below its insertion.

_Deflexed_, bent or turned abruptly downward.

_Dehiscing_, opening by valves, slits, or regular lines; as a capsule or an anther.

_Deltoid_, having the shape of the Greek letter _delta_; broadly triangular.

_Denticulate_, minutely toothed.

_Depauperate_, impoverished in size by unfavorable surroundings.

_Dichotomous_, forking regularly by pairs.

_Diaecious_, with stamens and pistils in different flowers on different plants.

_Dissected_, deeply cut, or divided into numerous segments.

_Divaricate_, extremely divergent.

_Divided_, lobed or cut clear to the base.

_Emarginate_, notched at the extremity.

_Entire_, with the margin uninterrupted; without teeth or divisions of any sort.

_Equitant_, astride; as of leaves folding over each other in two ranks; as in the iris.

_Erose_, gnawed.

_Exserted_, projecting beyond an envelop; as stamens from a corolla.

_Extrorse_, facing outward; said of the anther.

_Falcate_, scythe-shaped; sickle-shaped.

_Fascicled_, in a close cluster or bundle; said of flowers, stalks, roots, and leaves.

_Fertile_, capable of producing fruit; as a pistillate flower; applied also to a pollen-bearing stamen.

_Fibrous_, composed of or of the nature of fibres.

_Filiform_, threadlike.

_Flexuous_, zigzag; bent alternately in opposite directions.

_Foliaceous_, leaflike in structure or appearance; leafy.

_Foliolate_, having leaflets; the number indicated by the Latin prefixes, _bi-_, _tri-_, etc.

_Follicle_, a pod formed from a single pistil, dehiscing along the ventral suture only.

_Free_, not growing to other organs.

_Fugacious_, falling very early.

_Funnel-form_, tubular, but expanding gradually from the narrow base to the spreading border or limb; _e.g._ the Morning-glory flower.

_Galea_, a helmet; applied to the helmet-shaped upper lip of the corolla in _Labiatae_, etc.; also in some _Scrophularineae_, though not so shaped.

_Glabrous_, without any kind of hairiness.

_Gland_, any secreting structure, depression or prominence, on any part of a plant, or any structure having such an appearance.

_Glandular_, bearing glands, or glandlike.

_Glaucous_, covered or whitened with a bloom like that on a cabbage-leaf.

_Habit_, the general form or mode of growth of a plant.

_Herbaceous_, having the character of an herb; not woody or shrubby.

_Hispid_, beset with rigid or bristly hairs, or with bristles.

_Imbricate_, overlapping, like shingles on a roof.

_Incised_, cut irregularly and sharply.

_Included_, inclosed by the surrounding organs; not exserted.

_Indigenous_, native to the country.

_Inferior_, said of the ovary when the calyx, corolla, or stamens are borne upon its summit or sides.

_Inflorescence_, the flowering portion of a plant, and especially the mode of its arrangement.

_Innate_, said of an anther when it is a continuation of the filament.

_Introrse_, facing inward, or toward the axis, as an anther.

_Involucrate_, having an involucre.

_Involucre_, a circle of bracts subtending a flower-cluster.

_Involute_, rolled inward.

_Keel._ (See _carina_.)

_Keeled_, furnished with a keel, or carina.

_Lacerate_, torn; irregularly and deeply cleft.

_Laciniate_, cut into narrow, slender teeth, or lobes.

_Liliaceous_, lily-like.

_Limb_, the dilated and usually spreading portion of a perianth or petal as distinct from the tubular part, or claw.

_Line_, the twelfth part of inch.

_Linear_, narrow and elongated, with parallel margins.

_Lip_, either of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx; in orchids the upper petal (often, apparently, the lower) usually very different from the others.

_Lobe_, any division of a leaf, corolla, etc., especially if rounded.

_Lunate_, crescent-shaped, or half-moon-shaped.

_Lyrate_, lyre-shaped; pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large and rounded, and one or more of the lower pairs small.

_Membranaceous_, thin; rather soft and translucent, like membrane.

_Monoecious_, with stamens and pistils in separate blossoms on the same plant.

_Mucronate_, with a short, abrupt, small tip.

_Nectar_, the sweetish secretion of the blossom from which bees make honey.

_Nectary_, the place or gland in which nectar is secreted.

_Nerve_, a simple, unbranched vein or slender rib.

_Nerved_, furnished with a nerve or nerves.

_Ob-_, used as a prefix meaning inversely.

_Obtuse_, blunt or rounded at the end.

_Odd-pinnate_, pinnate, with an odd leaflet at the end.

_Palate_, a protrusion at or near the throat of a two-lipped corolla.

_Panicle_, a loose, irregularly branching inflorescence.

_Papilionaceous_, butterfly-like; applied to the peculiar irregular flower common in _Leguminosae_.

_Papillae_, minute, thick, nipple-shaped, or somewhat elongated projections.

_Parasitic_, growing upon and deriving nourishment from another plant.

_Parted_, cleft nearly, but not quite, to the base.

_Perfoliate_, said of leaves connate about the stem.

_Persistent_, not falling off; said of leaves continuing through the winter.

_Petaloid_, petal-like.

_Petiolate_, having a petiole.

_Petiole_, the foot-stalk of a leaf.

_Petiolulate_, having a petiolule.

_Petiolule_, the foot-stalk of a leaflet.

_Pinnate_, having its parts arranged in pairs along a common rachis.

_Pinnatifid_, pinnately cleft.

_Pistillate_, having a pistil or pistils, and no stamens.

_Puberulent_, minutely pubescent.

_Pubescent_, covered with hairs, usually soft and short.

_Rachis_, the axis (backbone) of a spike, or of a compound leaf.

_Radiate_, diverging from a common center, or bearing ray-flowers; said of flower-heads of composite plants.

_Radical_, belonging to or proceeding from the root, or from the base of the stem.

_Ray_, one of the radiating branches of an umbel; the marginal flowers, as distinct from those of the disk, in _Compositae_, etc.

_Receptacle_, a more or less expanded surface, forming a support for a cluster of organs (in a flower) or a cluster of flowers (in a head), etc.

_Recurved_, curved backward or downward.

_Reflexed_, abruptly bent or turned backward or downward.

_Regular_, symmetrical in form; uniform in shape or structure.

_Retrorse_, directed backward or downward.

_Revolute_, rolled backward from the margins or apex.

_Rhomboidal_, quadrangular, with the lateral angles obtuse.

_Rudiment_, an imperfectly developed and functionally useless organ.

_Rugose_, wrinkled; ridged.

_Saccate_, sac-shaped; baggy.

_Sagittate_, shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with basal lobes prolonged downward.

_Salver-form_, narrowly tubular, with limb abruptly or flatly expanded.

_Scabrous_, rough to the touch.

_Scape_, a naked peduncle rising from the ground.

_Scarious_, thin, dry, membranaceous, and not green.

_Scorpioid_, incurved like the tail of a scorpion; said of an inflorescence.

_Segment_, one of the parts of a leaf or other organ that is cut or divided.

_Serrate_, having teeth directed forward, like the teeth of a saw.

_Serrulate_, minutely serrate.

_Sessile_, stemless.

_Sinus_, a recess or re-entering angle.

_Sheathing_, infolding like a sheath.

_Spathe_, a large bract or pair of bracts (often colored) inclosing a flower-cluster.

_Spinescent_, ending in a spine or rigid point.

_Spinulose_, with diminutive spines.

_Spur_, a usually slender tubular process, from some part of a flower, often honey-bearing.

_Staminate_, having stamens, but no pistils.

_Staminodium_, a sterile stamen, or something taking the place of a stamen.

_Stellate_, star-shaped.

_Sterile_, barren; incapable of producing seed; a sterile stamen is one not producing pollen.

_Striate_, marked with fine longitudinal lines.

_Subtended_, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre.

_Subulate_, awl-shaped.

_Succulent_, fleshy and juicy.

_Superior_, growing above; a superior ovary is one wholly above and free from the calyx.

_Terete_, cylindrical.

_Ternate_, in threes.

_Thyrse_, a contracted or ovate panicle.

_Thyrsoid_, thyrselike.

_Tomentum_, dense, matted, woolly pubescence.

_Trifoliolate_, having three leaflets.

_Tubular_, tube-shaped.

_Undulate_, wavy.

_Unisexual_, of one sex; said of flowers having stamens only, or pistils only.

_Urceolate_, cylindrical or ovoid, but contracted at or below the open orifice, like an urn or a pitcher.

_Valve_, the several parts of a dehiscent pericarp; the doorlike lid by which some anthers open.

_Ventricose_, swelling unequally, or inflated on one side.

_Versatile_, swinging; turning freely on its support.

_Villous_, bearing long and soft, straight or straightish hairs.

_Virgate_, wandlike.

_Viscid_, glutinous; sticky.

_Whorl_, an arrangement of leaves, flowers, etc., in a circle about the stem, or axis.

* * * * * Transcriber's Notes

Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired. Flowers with no common name have a thought break. Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired.

Page 141 "black-bird" changed to "blackbird". Page 192 "arrow-heads" changed to "arrowheads". Page 324 "horse-mint" changed to "horsemint". Page 164 "over-powering" changed to "overpowering". Page 141 "lace-like" changed to "lacelike". Page 190 "golden-rod" changed to "goldenrod". Page 354 "tooth-like" changed to "toothlike".

The following index entries were repaired:

Large Yellow Lupine, 16[**numbers missing] Lavender Mountain Daisy, [**numbers missing] Lead-Plant, [**numbers missing] Leatherwood, [**numbers missing] Lemonade-Berry, [**numbers missing] Lemon-Lily, [**numbers missing]

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, the following errors:

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