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folia) ape their cowslip cousins in their round, scalloped leaves, 

 but the flowers are white within and purple tinged outside. 

 Angelica (Angelica Grayi) is one of the largest of the alpine 

 plants, growing from two to three feet tall. It helongs to the 

 parsnip family and its broad leaves with their immense dilated 

 foot-stalks, and its wide umhrellas of white flowers render it 

 very conspicuous on the monotonous wastes of broken rocks. 

 Harebells ( Campanula petioiata) abounding in the lower zones, 

 are to be found, late in the Alpine summer, nodding among the 

 ripened grasses of the meadows above timberline. So thickh 

 d( i they grow that they make great splashes of brilliant blue 

 against the gold of the grass, and the crisp little corollas rattle 

 together in the wind as if some passing tricksy fairy had set 

 all their tiny bells a jingle. The arctic harebell {Campanula 

 uniHora) grows on the highest, bleakest summits and extends 

 into the Arctic regions. It grows only two or three inches high 

 and bears a single, dark blue, funnel-shaped flower scarcely an 

 inch long. 



The mountain sorrel abounds in the arctic regions as well 

 as upon our high mountains and it is said that the natives of 

 Greenland use its roots for food. The Ckionophila is found 

 only on the highest peaks of the central Rocky Mountains, on 

 the spots where the most enduring drifts have lain late into 

 summer. From a little tuft of root leaves it sends up a dense, 

 one-sided spike of tubular, cream-colored flowers, not unlike 

 the indian pipe in general appearance. The alpine mertensia 

 is called "Pike's Peak forget-me-not" because thousands of 

 little nosegays of these dainty, fragrant flowers have been sold 

 to passengers on the trains that ascend that famous mountain. 

 'idie alpine paintbrush (CastMcia occidentalis) is but a pale 

 reflection of the glorious species of the plains. Mostly pale 

 cream or yellow, sometimes streaked with brown or purple. 

 but never deeper than bronze, it is odd and interesting but 

 hardly beautiful. The arctic gentians (Gentiana frigida) are 



