and on the cold lower slopes the Douglas spruce. 

 There are a number of extensive lodge-pole pine 

 forests. These are from thirty to one hundred 

 and thirty years old. Lines of aspen adorn most 

 streams; here and there where the soil is moist 

 they expand into groves. 



The wild-flower inhabitants of this great 

 Park number more than a thousand species. 

 Many of these are members of famous families, 

 — famous for their antiquity upon the earth, 

 for their delicate scent, for their intricate 

 and artistic structure, and for their brilliant 

 color. 



The gentian family is represented by fifteen 

 species, one of these being a fringed blue gentian, 

 a Western relative of the fringed gentian cele- 

 brated by the poet B ryant . There are intricately- 

 formed orchids. The silver and blue columbine 

 is here at its best; it blossoms on the lower 

 slopes in June, on the heights during Septem- 

 ber. The populous pea family, in yellow, white, 

 and lavender, covers and colors extensive areas. 

 Then there are asters, daisies, mariposa lilies, 

 polemonium, wintergreen, forget-me-nots, black- 



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