lO WHIT?: TO GREEN 



MEADOW-RUE 



TJialictnim occidcntak. Crowfoot Family 



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

 ones petioled. Flowers : nodding on ver}- 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 maiden-hair 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 fre- 

 quently found along the margins of alpine streams, being much 

 admired in fruit, when it shows numerous seed-bearing stars, 

 tipped with thread-like points. 



GLOBE FLOWER 



Trollius laxus. Crowfoot Family 



Stems : weak, ascending. Leaves : palmately divided, the segments 

 many-cleft. Flowers : solitary ; sepals five to six, white, with a greenish 

 tinge outside ; petals fifteen to twenty-five, bright yellow, minute, much 

 shorter than the numerous stamens. 



The Globe Flower is one of the most conspicuous of all the 

 early spring mountain plants that grow at ver}' high altitudes. 

 Close to the borders of alpine lakes and streams, and in 

 marshy places where the snow has recently melted, beds of 

 this beautiful large white flower may be found, its brilliant 

 golden centre gleaming in the sunshine, and its rich, glossy 

 foliage forming a superb setting for its perfect purity. 



Do not confuse it with one of the Anemones. Note that 

 its centre is far larger and more golden in hue ; also that the 

 foliage is coarser and thicker. There is a bushy circle of leaves 

 set on the stalk about one inch below the blossom. The 

 Globe Flower is frequently found growing up through the 

 snow. 



