MORMON LILIES 



corresponding abundance of winged blossoms 

 above them, moths and butterflies, the legu- 

 minosse of the insect kingdom. This floweriness 

 is maintained with deUghtful variety all the 

 way up through rocks and bushes to the snow 

 — violets, UHes, gilias, Oenotheras, 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 liUaceous plants in particular, Erythro- 

 nium grandifiorum 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 HHaceous 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 Ulies, then this may well be called the Lily 

 Range. 



After climbing about a thousand feet above 



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