As California Wild Flowers Grow Suggestions to Mature Lovers
As California Wild Flowers Grow Suggestions to Mature Lovers
Chandler Katherine
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Is Judas ever de- picted wearing the color of the Heavens? The Gentian was named for King Gentius of Illyria, that eastern borderland of the Adriatic whose history spells romance right down to this hour. Gentius was something of a practicing physi- cian, and he made known the curative qualities of the root of the plant. Even today the essence of the Gentian is used in medicine. Another Sierran plant that seems to be in the era of changing its parts is the Pentstemon. Any 90 AS CALIFORNIA FLOWER...S GROW schoolboy who has drawn a pentagon will guess that "pentstemon" means "five stamens. " Well, that is what the word does mean; but look in the blossom and count the stamens bearing anthers on their tops. You see there are but four. In the ancient days, long before this genus was named, the flower prob- ably did have five sta- mens; but it evidently concluded that four with good healthy an- thers could work to bet- ter advantage than five in the crowded quarters of its throat. So it is transforming that fifth stamen into something else something more beautiful and quite as useful.
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