21 8 Pink to Red Flowers 



closely crowded in roundish leafy-bracted flat-topped clus- 

 ters at the ends of the many branches. 



LONG-PLUMED AVENS 



Geum triHorum. Rose Family 



Stems: scape simple, three-flowered at the summit. Leaves: basal 

 ones tufted, petioled, interruptedly pinnate, with many small leaflets 

 interspersed among the numerous obovate larger ones ; leaves of the 

 scape two opposite, small, sessile pairs. Flowers: of five pale purpHsh- 

 pink petals surrounded by a persistent red calyx, five-bracteolate and five 

 lobed; bractlets linear, slightly longer than the lanceolate, acute, erect 

 lobes. Fruit: head sessile; style filiform and strongly plumose. 



A very curious plant. Its general appearance is that of 

 bearing three large dull red buds on a three-branched red 

 stem, with a number of little red bracts clustered at the 

 fork ; for the pale pink or yellowish petals are so snugly hid- 

 den away within the calyx that you do not observe them at a 

 casual glance. The closed calyx forms these fat buds, which 

 have five slender reflexed bracts set between their lobes, and 

 from their pointed tips protrude a number of yellow stamens. 



When the petals and sepals fall off the long plumose tails 

 that adorn the ripened heads of the Avens are exceedingly 

 attractive. Many long finely cut leaves grow at the base of 

 this plant. 



ARCTIC RASPBERRY 



Rubles arcticiis. Rose Family 



Stems: erect, branched at base. Leaves: trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, 

 rhombic-ovate, unequally serrate. Flowers: solitary; sepals acute, 

 equalling the obovate entire petals. Fruit: light red, of several drupe- 

 lets, edible. 



A dwarf alpine Raspberry, about six inches high, that 

 grows at an altitude of 8000 feet. It has a few large three- 

 parted leaves and one or two rose-pink flowers composed of 



