MORMON LILIES 



corresponding abundance of winged blossoms 

 above them, moths and butterflies, the legu- 

 minosae of the insect kingdom. This floweriness 

 is maintained with delightful variety all the 

 way up through rocks and bushes to the snow 

 violets, lilies, gilias, cenotheras, wallflowers, 

 ivesias, saxifrages, smilax, and miles of bloom- 

 ing bushes, chiefly azalea, honeysuckle, brier 

 rose, buckthorn, and eriogonum, all meeting 

 and blending in divine accord. 

 Two liliaceous plants hi particular, Erythro- 

 nium grandiflorum and Fritillaria pudica, are 

 marvelously beautiful and abundant. Never 

 before, in all my walks, have I met so glorious 

 a throng of these fine showy liliaceous plants. 

 The whole mountain-side was aglow with 

 them, from a height of fifty-five hundred feet 

 to the very edge of the snow. Although re- 

 markably fragile, both in form and in substance, 

 they are endowed with plenty of deep-seated 

 vitality, enabling them to grow in all kinds of 

 places down in leafy glens, in the lee of wind- 

 beaten ledges, and beneath the brushy tangles 

 of azalea, and oak, and prickly roses every- 

 where forming the crowning glory of the flow- 

 ers. If the neighboring mountains are as rich 

 in lilies, then this may well be called the Lily 

 Range. 

 After climbing about a thousand feet above 



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