Planche 11. 



Fi^. 1. Pyrole uniflore. Les dtamines 

 s'ouvrent par des pores terminaiix; le 

 stigmate est graiul, globiüeux, la fleur tou- 

 jours solitaire. 



Dans la foret alpine, de 800 a 1800 m. 



Fig. 2. Pyroles ä feuiiles rondes. Style 

 arquö; ctainines erigees; corolle blanche, 

 fleurs en grappes läches. 



Forets, de la plaine jusqu'a 2000 m. 



Fig. 3. Pavot des Alpes. Les pavots 

 ont im calice h deux sepales caduques, des 

 petales chiffonnes dans le bouton, un grand 

 nombre d'etaniines et un stigmate rayonnant, 

 en forme de disque papilleux. L'espece 

 figuree ci-contre se recounait a ses feuiiles 

 divisees en lobes ötroits et ä ses fleurs 

 blanches. 



Eboulis des alpes calcaires, de 1600 a 

 2600 m. 



Fig. 4. Pavot des Grisons. Difffere du 

 precedent par les lobes des feuiiles plus 

 larges et poilus. 



Chaine de la Bernina, de 1800 k 2900 m. 



Fig. 5. Cyclamen d'Europe (famille des 

 Prioiulaeees). Cette plante possede un tuber- 

 cule charnu cache profondement dans le 

 sol, des feuiiles coriaces rouges en dessous 

 et des petales recourbes vers le haut, 



Lieux rocailleux, buissons, bois mon- 

 tagneux. 



Fig. 6. Nigritelle ä feuiiles etroites. Uue 

 Orchidee, remarquable par la forte odeur 

 de vanille qu'exhalent ses fleurs. 



Päturages, gazons, humus, de 1300 k 

 2600 m. 



Plate 17. 



Fig. 1. One-flowered Winter-green. The 

 plant is easily known by its 10 stamens 

 whieh open with pores, by its large head- 

 shaped Stigma and by the Single flower at 

 the end of the naked stalk. 



In moory, shady Alpine woods, from 

 800—1800 m. 



Fig. 2. Round-ieaved Winter-green. Sta- 

 mens beut upwards, the style downward; 

 the corolla white and the raceme furnished 

 with flowers on all sides. 



Shady woods, from the plains up to 

 about 2000 m. 



Fig. 3. Alpine Poppy. The genus Pa- 

 paver is characterised by the two-leaved, 

 fugitive calyx, by the petals while in bud 

 being creased, by its numeroiis stamens, 

 and by the schieldshaped Stigma which is 

 crowned by dark rays of papiUae ; this 

 species is known by its usually bare leaves 

 being divided into narrow lineal Segments, 

 and by its white flowers. 



A detritus plant of the northern Chalk- 

 alps (also in the far North, but here with 

 yellow flowers), from about 1600—2600 m. 



Fig. 4. Rhaetic Poppy. Ditfering from 

 the preceding by its yellow flowers and the 

 broader segments of its leaf, which latter 

 are furnished with hairs. 



Bernina-range, from 1800—2900 m. 



Fig. 5. European Cyclamen. This Pri- 

 mulaceae is characterised by the depressed 

 globular bulb which is buried deep in the 

 earth, by its leathery leaves whieh are red 

 on the underside, by its sharply bentback 

 petals and by its spiraly roUed up fruit- 

 stalks. 



Stony bushy plaees, woods of the moun- 

 tain region. 



Fig. 6. Alpine or narrow-leaved Nigri- 

 tella. This Orchid is characterised by its 

 intense aroma of Vanilla. 



Pastures, beds of mould, belts of 

 turf, from about 1300—2600 m. 



