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pink flowers (cajmoides scouleri) that resembled the 

 more modest bleeding heart (hikukiilla formosa), called 

 by the children Dutchman's breeches, which indeed 

 grew near by. 



But the parts of the woods the Mountaineers love 

 best are the places where tower giant cedars and firs 

 and hemlocks hundreds of feet into the air, shedding 

 through their branches a mellow light on great soft 

 beds of the most beautiful of Washington's many 

 mosses, the lacy kylocomium splendens. Here are num- 

 berless dainty white flowers; the one with four white 

 bracts set across its four green leaves is the dwarf 

 dog-wood {corniis canadensis) ; the pure white waxy 

 flower, like a delicate lily, between two long leaves, is 

 the clintonia uniflora; while the exquisite white one 

 growing out from the center of a circlet of leaves in a 

 bed of moss is the rare moneses uniflora. The two 

 prince's pines are in these woods side by side, the pip- 

 isissiica of the Indians, one (chimaphila unibellata), 

 with shiny stiff green leaves and fancy pink parasol- 

 like blossoms; the other {chimaphila menziesii) with 

 more dainty flowers, pure white, often with mottled 

 leaves. Then there are many pyrolas, a tall pink spike 

 (pyrola bracteata), a shorter, more compact one (py- 

 rola secunda) and a tall stem set with creamy white 

 flowers {pyrola picta). The orchid family is repre- 

 sented by groups of slender coral-root {corallorhiza 

 mertensiana) , three or four together; and the two twa- 

 blades {ophrys caurina and ophrys convallarioides), 

 with their delicate green spikes. Occasionally a clump 

 of colorless Indian pipe {hypopitys hypopitys) is seen 

 just pushing its head through the ground. 



On the rocks of the moraine just below the nose of 

 Carbon Glacier grew mats of wild foxglove {pentstem- 

 on menziesii) , with showy purple blossoms, and clump 

 after clump of rock fern {cryptogramma acrostichoi- 



