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like roots with a relish. Then appeared the peculiar Menziesia 
glabella, and the undeveloped buds of the white azalea (Rhododen- 
dron albiflorum). Next, in strange contrast, the common blue 
violet ( Viola canina, var. adunca), and low strawberry (Fragaria 
Chilensis), put me in mind of home. The young shoots of Pedic- 
ularts bracteosa, were just appearing from the ground; while from a 
rich handful of earth was growing a clump of the pretty alpine 
form of our waterleaf (Hydrophyllum Virginicum). Soon a de- 
lightful surprise was in waiting for me. As we scaled the now al- 
most vertical wall, slowly and with the utmost care, for a misstep 
would send us rolling hundreds of feet down the steep and rocky 
defile, my face, almost in contact with the rock, came suddenly 
upon a dash of color almost as vivid as if some one had overturned 
a pot of crimson or carmine, and covering an area of a foot or 
more. It was the beautiful alpine Douglasia (D. nivalis, var. dentata ); 
probably, though at the time I thought I had found an unknown 
treasure. Soon this plant occurred in great abundance, and as these 
brilliant patches of red fell upon the eye from a distance, one could 
hardly dissuade oneself from thinking this some Lookout Mount- 
tain up which an attacking force had been clambering, and though the 
bodies had been removed the stains bore witness of the bloody fray. 
Clinging to the overhanging rocks was the handsome Penstemon 
Menziesi, while Antennaria plantaginifolia, Saxifraga occidentalis, 
(early Saxifrage) Saxifraga punctata, Allium Ti olmiet, Arabis hir- 
suta, Pachystima myrsinites, in full bloom, and the beautiful west- 
ern heather ( Bryanthus empetriformis ) yet in bud, took hold wher- 
ever a handful of earth was to be found on the otherwise bare rocks. 
Bordering the snow-banks, near the summit, were thick beds of 
another plant closely related to the last Cassiope Mertensiana, the 
beautiful white bells of the latter forming a pretty contrast to the 
pink buds of the former. Next came a violet, handsome both in 
leaf and in flower, the name of which is totally unknown to me. 
There was but one bunch of it, and though I scanned the cliffs far _ 
and near not another did I find. (This plant is called V. Flowellii, 
by Mr. Watson.) Near the summit appeared Calandrinia Leana, 
where sufficient disintegrated rock had given it a bed, while near by 
was Saxifraga stellaris in bud. 
After traversing a few more snow-fields and rounding several 
cliffs, we came to the extreme summit, and, in order to rest, sat 
