MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 



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WILD STRAWBERRY 



Fragaria glaitca. Rose Family 



Stems: running, and forming new plants. Leaves: tufted from the root, 

 villous-pubescent with spreading hairs, long-petioled, palmately-trifoliate; 

 leaflets oval, obtuse, dentate, the terminal one cuneate. Flowers: of five 

 petals, cymose; scape with appressed pubescens and generally glaucous 

 leaves. Fruit: red, ovoid. 



Nearly every one will easily recognize the blossoms of the 

 Wild Strawberry plant. " Doubtless God could have made a 

 better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is equally 

 true of the fragrant scarlet fruits on the mountain side as of 

 their cultivated cousins in the garden. 



TALL CINQUEFOIL 



Poientilla arguta. Rose Family 



Stems: erect, stout, simple below. Leaves: seven-to-eleven foliolate; 

 leaflets ovate, obtuse at the apex, — the terminal one cuneate, the others 

 rounded at the base. Flowers: cyme strict, close; calyx densely pubescent. 



Cinquefoils are very numerous in the mountain regions, 

 and somewhat resemble buttercups. The Tall Cinquefoil is 

 a fine showy plant, its white flowers growing in a cluster and 

 having five petals ; the stalks are hairy and have many leaves 

 growing up them. See also page 276 in the Yellow to Orange 

 Section. 



COMMON SAXIFRAGE 



Saxifraga broncJiialis. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: one to six inches high, ascending, .slender, producing short 

 branchlets. Leaves: coriaceous, lanceolate, mucronate, sessile, with a 

 broad base finely ciliate. Flowers: few, in an open corymb on slender 

 pedicels; petals oblong, white, marked with red spots. 



Frequently the traveller will find immense rocky slopes 

 literally covered with the pretty little blossoms of this Saxi- 

 frage, which may easily be recognized by the bright red spots 



