6 SWISS FLOWERS. 



two guides, also, at Zermatt, profess some knowledge of 

 botany and have good dried specimens. The Jura has 

 flowers peculiar to itself, and the Engadine, Pontresina, 

 and Davos-Platz, likewise furnish capital centres, with rare 

 flowers in abundance. The Engadine pastures are a mass 

 of flowers. 



As an example of what may be done without any search, 

 but merely by gathering what comes in the way, we will 

 give the remembrance of a walk up Pilatus one early day 

 in July, and will say, in passing, that this grand old moun- 

 tain, with its cap of cloud, possesses a fine flora in addition to 

 its other attractions. We simply put down from memory 

 a few flowers which were gathered on that occasion ; had all 

 those found within about ten yards from the road been 

 added, the number could easily have been doubled or 

 trebled. 



The pleasant hostess at the comfortable little inn of 

 Hergiswyl thought it doubtful whether we could get a 

 horse up to the top of the mountain, on account of the 

 snow ; but she said the path was a good one, made by 

 some of her family, and that at the Klimsenhorn we 

 should find an inn kept by a relative. So there was 

 nothing formidable in the nine or ten miles' ascent, 

 except the length of the way to those who did not pro- 

 fess to be good walkers. Switzerland's finest lake never 

 looked finer than early on that July morning, and the 



