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galiums, etc. Then comes a flat stretch a mile wide, 

 extending to the foothills, covered with birch, spruce, 

 fir, and poplar, now mostly killed by fire and the 

 ground strewn with charred trunks. From this black 

 forest the mountain rises in rather steep slopes cov- 

 ered with a luxuriant growth of bushes, grass, flowers, 

 and a few trees, chiefly spruce and fir, the firs gradu- 

 ally dwarfing into a beautiful chaparral, the most 

 beautiful, I think, I have ever seen, the flat fan- 

 shaped plumes thickly foliaged and imbricated by 

 snow pressure, forming a smooth, handsome thatch 

 which bears cones and thrives as if this repressed con- 

 dition were its very best. It extends up to an eleva- 

 tion of about fifty-five hundred feet. Only a few trees 

 more than a foot in diameter and more than fifty feet 

 high are found higher than four thousand feet above 

 the sea. A few poplars and willows occur on moist 

 places, gradually dwarfing like the conifers. Alder is 

 the most generally distributed of the chaparral bushes, 

 growing nearly everywhere; its crinkled stems an inch 

 or two thick form a troublesome tangle to the moun- 

 taineer. The blue geranium, with leaves red and 

 showy at this time of the year, is perhaps the most 

 telling of the flowering plants. It grows up to five 

 thousand feet or more. Larkspurs are common, with 

 epilobium, senecio, erigeron, and a few solidagos. The 

 harebell appears at about four thousand feet and ex- 

 tends to the summit, dwarfing in stature but main- 

 taining the size of its handsome bells until they seem 

 to be lying loose and detached on the ground as if like 

 snow flowers they had fallen from the sky; and, though 



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