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with its hair-fringed leaves, and lovely purple blossom, 

 which grows on a leafy stalk, loves the wet mossy 

 crags of Snowdon and the Scottish highlands, where 

 the Alpine Clustered Saxifrage (S. nivalis) may be 

 also found : the pure white flowers bloom like a buttou 

 on a leafless stem. 



The Bird's-eye Primrose (Primula farinosa) blooms 

 in June and July, and is somewhat like an auricula; 

 but the flower is small, seldom larger than the oxlip, 

 of a pale purple tint, with a yellow centre ; and the 

 whole plant seems as if covered with a white meally 

 powder. 



The Winter Green (Trientalis Europcea) blooms in 

 June on the mountain-side. The stem rises some 

 three or four inches high above the oval-shaped 

 rosette of delicately tinted green leaves, with its 

 three or four little white flowers. 



The Globe Flower (Trollius Europceus), so well 

 known in our gardens, loves the moist sward of the 

 mountain-side : its tall stem and five cleft and subdi- 

 vided leaves support its golden balls, which the Scotch 

 call " the luckie gowan." The pale yellow Mountain 

 Violet (Viola lutea) is common on the "Welsh moun- 

 tains; and so is the Rose-root (Sedum rTiodiola), which 



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