MOUNTAIN FI.()\VI:RS 

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alpine meadow literall\- covered with these frail teallK-rv liifls, 

 rising up on their long, slender, woody stems several inches 

 above the prostrate foliage, half of which is curled over to 

 show its silvery lining; for all the leaves of Drummond's 

 Dryas are green and shining on the top and white and silk\- 

 underneath. The flower consists of mimerous small yellow 

 petals enclosed in a sh(^rt, hairy, green calyx ; but as soon as 

 these die and fall off, the stalk elongates and the seed-head 

 quickly develo})s. Tliis ])lant will grow in the jxxirest soil, 

 and is most frequentl}' found on arid gra\el beds and in the 

 gravelly battures of the alpine streams. 



YELLOW AVENS 



Geutn strictuDi. Ko.se Faniilv 



Stems: ascending, pubescent, branched ahove. Leaves: basal ones 

 lyrate-pinnate : leaflets five to seven, obovate. cuneate, dentate, with a 

 few smaller ones interspersed, the terminal one largest : stem-leaves ses- 

 sile, with three to five ovate acute segments. Flowers: several, terminal, 

 of five petals. 



This is a comnion plant, with l:)right \ellow the-i)etalled 

 flowers and large foliage. Each leaf is pinnateh dixided and 

 has one big terminal segment and from four to six smaller 

 leaflets, interspersed with some \"er\' tin\- ones. The most 

 noticeable feature is the fruit, which consists k^ a ball (A 

 seeds, each one terminating in an elongated barbed st\le. 



G. macropJiylluvi^ or Large-lea\ed Axens, is \ery like the 

 preceding species, but it has nnich larger, coarser foliage. It 

 also has bright yellow flowers and a bur-like head of seeds, 

 each one of which terminates in the same slender, jointed, 

 hooked style which is a distinguishing characteristic of this 

 genus of plants. 



Both the Yellow Avens and the Large-lea\ed A\ens ha\e 

 lobed and toothed leaves and small clove-scented llower.s. 

 They are rough hair\' plants lukI resemble weeds. 



