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the open woods is the yerba buena, or “good herb,” after which San Francisco was first named. It bears a tiny trumpet-shaped flower close to the main stem. Botanists call it Micromeria Douglassi, after David Douglass, Oregon’s first explorer in this field of science, who was killed by wild cattle on one of the Hawaiian Islands while in pursuit of his studies of plants. The early settlers used its aromatic leaves in place of tea, which caused it to be called Oregon tea. Side by side with the yerba buena is the twin-flower, Linncea borealis, with a very similar leaf, vine, and flower, except that it supports, upon a slender peduncle two inches in length, a pair of blossoms instead of a single one.

The red columbine, Aquilegia formosa, looks quite at home among the ferns in woodsy places and on mossy banks by the roadside; and the adder’s-tongue keeps company with the anemone among the bushes. The lilies, golden erythronium, Lilium canadense, and Lilium Washingtonium, display their royal robes as in the days of King Solomon, some in the fence-corners, some among the grass and ferns by the rivulet, and others in the grain-fields. The Washingtonium is a native of the Wallamet Valley. When it first opens it is a pure white dashed with some purple pin points of color. As it grows to be a day or so old it adds a pink blush to its whiteness, and in another day is of a very decided pink, so that, with several on a stalk in different degrees of development, it offers a pleasing range of color. In shape it resembles the tiger-lily.

The California poppy, JEschscholtzia, is found in Southern Oregon, and the golden coreopsis also. The Indian pink, Cas- telia brevifolia, asserts its right to look gay anywhere there is a bank of loose warm earth. In the shadowy edges of the forest one may find the Indian pipe shooting up its colorless stem, and the pretty “ tobacco-pouch” cypripedium, with its striped white, brown, and purple pocket held invitingly open.

In the fields and on sunny slopes grow the “shooting star” (Dodecatheon Meadia ), of several colors; flax-flower (Linum ); “bo 3 ~s and girls” ( Cynoglossum ), pink and blue on the same stem; convolvulus, white and pink; phlox (0 larkia ); Collomia grandiflora, in old-gold color; Hesperoscordum grandiflorum, white stars marked with green lines; Hosackia bicolor, white and