In the Sierra 



The trees about the camp stand close, giv- 

 ing ample shade for ferns and lilies, while 

 back from the bank most of the sunshine 

 reaches the ground, calling up the grasses 

 and flowers in glorious array, tall bromus 

 waving like bamboos, starry composite, 

 monardella, Mariposa tulips, lupines, gilias, 

 violets, glad children of light. Soon every 

 fern frond will be unrolled, great beds of 

 common pteris and woodwardia along the 

 river, wreaths and rosettes of pellasa and 

 cheilanthes on sunny rocks. Some of the 

 woodwardia fronds are already six feet 

 high. 



A handsome little shrub, Chamcebatia fo- 

 liolosa, belonging to the rose family, spreads 

 a yellow-green mantle beneath the sugar 

 pines for miles without a break, not mixed 

 or roughened with other plants. Only here 

 and there a Washington lily may be seen 

 nodding above its even surface, or a bunch 

 or two of tall bromus as if for ornament. 

 This fine carpet shrub begins to appear at, 



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