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The Wild Flowers of California:

Their Names, Haunts, and Habits
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W. Doxy, 1897 - Flowers - 410 pages

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Contents

Preface
vii
Table of Plates
xiii
How to Use the Book
xix
Copyright

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The Wild Flowers Of California Their Names, Haunts And Habits
The Wild Flowers Of California Their Names, Haunts And Habits
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Limited preview - 2004
The wild flowers of California: Their names, haunts, and habits
The wild flowers of California: Their names, haunts, and habits
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Snippet view - 1897
The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits...
The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits...
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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Anthers base beautiful Benth berries bilabiate bloom blossoms blue bracts branches bulb California Calochortus Calyx campanulate carpels charming clusters color common Composite Family Corolla County delicate dense eighteen lines long erect exserted feet high Figwort Figwort Family Filaments five five-cleft five-lobed five-toothed flowers Flowers.—White foliage foot four inches long fragrant fruit genus Gilia golden Gray green grows Hab.—Throughout hairy hill-slopes inches high Indians involucre lanceolate leaflets leathery leaves Leaves.—Alternate lilac Lily Family linear lobes Marin County Mendocino County Monterey mountain nine lines long numerous Nutt oblong One-celled Ovary ovate panicles Pea Family pedicels Pentstemon Perianth petals petioled Phlox pink pistil plant purple racemes resembles root San Diego scarlet seeds Sepals sessile showy shrub Sierras six inches six lines long slender solitary sometimes southward Spanish-Californians species spreading Stamens stems Stigma tall three inches long Torr tube upper usually violet whorls wild yellow

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TitleThe Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits
AuthorMary Elizabeth Parsons
Illustrated byMargaret Warriner Buck
PublisherW. Doxy, 1897
Original fromthe New York Public Library
Digitized16 Oct 2009
Length410 pages
  
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