Shrubby; a foot or two high; branching freely; glandular pubescent throughout; fragrant. Leaves.—Alternate; finely dissected; ovate or oblong in outline; two or three inches long. Flowers.—White; few in terminal cymes. Calyx.—Five-lobed. Petals.—Five; spreading; three or four lines long. Stamens.—Very numerous; short. Ovary.—Solitary. Style terminal. Fruit.—A leathery akene. Hab.—The Sierras, from Mariposa County to Nevada County.

One of the most conspicuous plants to be met on the way to the Yosemite is the Chamæbatia. It is exceedingly abundant, covering considerable areas and filling the air with its balsamic fragrance, strongly suggestive of tansy, though to many not so agreeable as the latter. It is a beautiful plant, with its feathery leaves and strawberry-like flowers; but by the roadside, where its viscid leaves and stems have caught the dust, it is often but a travesty of itself.

Mrs. Brandegee writes of it: "Along the line of the railroad in Placer County it is often called 'bear-clover,' perhaps in accordance with our felicitous custom of giving names, because it bears not the least resemblance to clover, and the bear will have nothing to do with it."

[LADIES' TRESSES—Spiranthes Romanzoffianum.]

LARGE-FLOWERED DOGWOOD.

Cornus Nuttallii, Audubon. Dogwood Family.

Shrubs or trees, fifteen to seventy feet high. Leaves.—Opposite; obovate; acute at each end; three to five inches long. Flowers.—Numerous; small; greenish; in a head surrounded by an involucre of four to six large, yellowish or white bracts, often tinged with red, and eighteen lines to three inches long. Calyx.—Four-toothed. Petals and Stamens.—Four. Ovary.—Two-celled. Fruit.—Scarlet; five or six lines long. Hab.—The Coast Ranges and Sierras, from Monterey and Plumas Counties to British Columbia.

Our large-flowered dogwood more nearly resembles the Eastern C. florida than any other species, but it is a much handsomer shrub than the latter. It reaches its maximum size in Northern Oregon and Washington, where, in the season of its blossoming, it is a sight never to be forgotten. Its masses of large white flowers, like single Cherokee roses, contrast finely with the deep, rich greens of the fir forests, in which it often grows. In its northern range, its leaves turn beautifully, and it becomes one of the most brilliant masqueraders in the autumn pageant.