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flowers, which nod at the top of the slender single stems, up 

 which a few pairs of little oblong leaves grow. It has been 

 found at the immense altitude of 10,000 feet. 



HORNEMANN'S WILLOW-HERB 



EpilobiiDn Hornc»iaiini. Evening Primrose Family 



Stems : erect, simple or nearly so. Leaves : short-petioled, ovate, broadly 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire or remotely denticulate, 

 thin. Flowers: few in the upper axils; stigma entire. Fruit: capsules 

 long : seeds papillose, nearly beakless. 



A common species of Willow-herb that grows about eight 

 inches high, bears small purplish-pink or white flowers that 

 are strongly veined, and has very long slender capsules, or 

 seed vessels, on its reddish stalks. The pretty little blossoms 

 are surrounded by a green calyx and surmount the narrow 

 capsules, which are usually from an inch to two inches long. 



NORTHERN TWIN-FLOWER 



Linncea borcalis. Honeysuckle Family 



Branches slender, trailing. Leaves : obscurely crenate, thick, sometimes 

 wider than long. Flowers : two-flowered, nodding ; peduncles slender, 

 erect, two-bracted at the summit ; calyx-tube tive-lobed ; corolla tubular- 

 campanulate, five-lobed. 



This lovely fragrant plant, called after the great Linnaeus, 

 the Father of Botany, is a 



" Monument of the Man of Flowers," 



who loved its exquisite pink bells above all else in Nature, 

 and who sealed his preference by adopting it as his crest. 



There is no more charming spot in the mountains than 

 some sequestered nook or shady bank carpeted and adorned 

 by the delicate trailing branches of the Northern Twin-flower, 

 its glossy green leaves mingling with the moss, and its pale 

 pink pairs of bells, veined and lined with rose colour, growing 



