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pointed, pinnate leaves, which are spiny-toothed and very 

 green and shining on the upper surface. The bud scales are 

 triangular, and the tiny yellow flowers grow in terminal and 

 axillary clusters. 



ARCTIC POPPY 



Papaver alpinum. Poppy Family 



Stems: scape erect, hirsute. Leaves: all basal, pinnately lobed or 

 cleft, the lobes linear, acute. Flowers: solitary. Fruit: capsule 

 obovoid, densely beset with erect bristly hairs. 



This is quite an alpine-arctic plant and grows only on the 

 high summits. It has a flower varying in colour from 

 yellow to reddish-orange, which grows on the top of a 

 slender, very erect stalk, and is formed like a common 

 Poppy, but has only four petals. All the leaves grow at the 

 base of the plant and are long-shaped and lobed. 



GOLDEN CORYDALIS 



Corydalis aurea. Fumitory Family 



Commonly low and spreading. Leaves: finely dissected into oblong- 

 obovate segments. Flowers: in short spicate racemes; corolla tubular, 

 irregular; petals four, one of the outer pair spurred at the base, the 

 interior ones narrow, keeled on the back; spur half the length of the 

 body of the corolla. Fruit: pods spreading. 



This plant generally grows low upon the ground, the very 

 finely dissected foliage spreading out into large patches that 

 are gemmed by the clusters of golden-yellow flowers, whose 

 form at once suggests that of the Wild Bleeding-heart. 

 When the ripe pods split open they disclose and scatter nu- 

 merous bright shining seeds. 



