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established routes and demand the luxurious accommodations of the 

 Tiiodern summer resort, Wavvona 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- 

 sation and enjov 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 form 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. 



