Fig. 137. — High-alpine vegetation and Hovvering. A, a high-alpine ' meadow ' 

 in British Columbia, Canada. (Phot. W. S. Cooper.) B, plants flowering at 

 about 5,944 metres (c. 19,500 feet) on Mohala Bhanjyang, West Nepal: visible 

 in the gravelly fell-field are Lagotis glaiica s.l. (to left of English shilling giving 

 scale), Potentilla saiindersiana var. caespitosa, Pedicularis sp., Arenaria sp., 2 

 Leguminosae, and one each of Umbelliferae, Cruciferae, and Gramineae — also 

 several Lichens. (Phot. O. Polunin.) 



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