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" These little dream-flowers found in Spring," 



of which Longfellow wrote in " Hiawatha " : 



" Where the fire had smoked and smouldered, 

 Saw the earliest flower of Spring-time, 

 Saw the Beauty of the Spring-time, 

 Saw the Miskodeed in blossom." 



Miskodecd is the Indian name for the Spring Beauty. 



Claytonia mcgarrhiza, or Alpine Spring Beauty, has 

 numerous wedge-shaped basal leaves rounded at the apex 

 and with a dilated base ; the stems not exceeding these leaves 

 in length. The stem leaves are narrow and the white to 

 pinkish and yellowish flowers grow in a one-sided cluster, 

 and have conspicuous bracts. This plant has a very large 

 tap-root which penetrates to a great depth in the crevices 

 among the rocks at high altitudes. 



Claytonia parvifolia, or Small-leaved Spring Beauty, has 

 tiny fleshy oval leaves, and white to pinkish loosely-flowered 

 clusters of blossoms at the ends of the numerous stems. It 

 propagates freely by bulblets in the axils of the stem leaves, 

 as well as by seed. 



WESTERN MEADOW RUE 



Thalictnun occidentale. Crowfoot Family- 

 Stems: slender, one to three feet high. Leaves: ternate, the lower 

 ones petioled. Flowers: nodding on very slender pedicels in an ample 

 open panicle; filaments purplish-green; anther linear, cuspidate; calyx 

 of four to eight sepals that fall early. Fruit: achenes one to ten in each 

 head, ribbed, lanceolate. 



A dainty plant, with delicate foliage closely resembling 

 robust Maidenhair Fern. The eye of the traveller is at once 

 caught by its pretty tassels, which hang in clusters and are 

 of a pale green colour, tipped with reddish-purple. It is 



