MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 



the forest should be called after so i)n)saiL an indix idual as ilic 

 Governor of New York, and soundly iterates (iray tor the 

 fault; but may not Clinton, the man of affairs, statecraft, and 

 finance, have had an artistic side to his character? Mav he 

 not have been a true lover of Nature and an ardent admirer 

 of the splendid throng; of amazing and mysterious beauties 

 that enrich with the perfume of their presence the land of 

 the alpine flower-fields ? 



I feel that a great honour has been conferred u]:)on me in 

 that I have been permitted to name this lovely j^lant — Oueen- 

 cup. Hitherto it has been nameless in the English language, 

 and it seems to me that no more fitting title could be bestowed 

 upon the ClintLmia uniflora, with its great shining leaves, 

 amongst which are set the pure white chalices of its blossoms, 

 than Oueen-cup, — the queen of all the snowy flower-cups of 

 the alpine forests. 



ASPHODEL 



Tojieldia glutinosa. Lily Family 



Stems: viscid-pubescent with black glands, l)earini^^ two to tour leaves 

 near the base. Leaves: basal ones tufted. Flowers: tenninal racemes 

 oblong, the upper flowers opening first, becomiiiLj Ioniser in fruit: invo- 

 lucral bracts minute, united at the apices, borne just below the flower; 

 perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, membranous. Fruit: seeds tailed at 

 each end. 



A traveller cannot pick the long spikes of tin\- white blos- 

 soms which belong to this plant without at once recognizing 

 its name by the exceedingly stick)- and hair\ natine of the 

 stems. The Latin designation glutinosa exactly describes it. 

 The Asphodel grows along the banks of streams and in wet 

 places. See Plate XXXIL 



