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established routes and demand the luxurious accommodations of the 
modern summer resort, Wawona offers a really pleasanter summer 
home than the valley itself, under present conditions. But for those 
seeking pleasure or science who find it agreeable for a while at least 
to escape the burdens as well as the luxuries of our pampered civili- 
zation and enjoy a brief season in the solitary woods, and moun. 
‘tains, this furnishes the best possible opportunity for the gratification 
of their desires. The high plateaus adjacent to Mt. Raymond and 
the Big Trees, the great divide between the south fork and the main 
Merced River, over which the Glacier Point Turnpike passes, and 
still more the region north of the Yosemite, including Lake Tenaya 
and extending out of the county to the Soda Springs of the Tuol- 
umne, offer to camping parties of the right kind the most delight- 
ful, opportunities for a stay of weeks or even months. In this last 
locality they are brought within easy access of all the high moun- 
tains in that quarter. Cathedral Peak and Mts. Conness, Dana, 
Lyell, Gibbs and others forrh the ramparts of a vast amphitheater, 
and are easily within the reach of those ambitious of high ascents, 
while all may enjoy the beautiful and exhilarating climate and other 
manifold attractions which make life here delightful. Nearly the 
whole of this region is within the limits of the national park, a cir- 
cumstance which by wholly excluding the vast bands of sheep that 
formerly devoured almost every green thing and denuded the 
natural meadows of every vestige of grass, has made it. more acces- 
sible to visitors, since there is abundance of forage for the requisite 
animals and the surface of the country itself is far more luxuriant 
and beautiful. ‘ 
Coming now to a more particular description of the flora of this 
subalpine region, we refer the reader to former articles for the many — 
species which, occurring first in the coniferous belt, extend into and 
often become more abundant in this,as well as for the few which, be-: 
ginning below the coniferous belt, ascend above its limits. 
In the following list Y, as heretofore, indicates a plane of the Yo- 
-semite Valley. W. indicates one of the Wawona valley, and M. G. 
one chiefly found in the Mariposa grove of big trees, while the other 
abbreviations also have the same meaning as before. 
Thalictrum occidentale Gray. Borders of meadows. 
sparsiflorum Turcz. 
Banks of streams, 7,000 feet and 
above. 
