POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



), which is not uncommon in shrubberies ; another 

 small shrub, which does truly belong to the Heath tribe, 

 called the Black Bearberry (Arbutus alpina}, with white 

 flowers and a black berry ; the following plants too, with 

 the familiar names of Alpine Ladies' Mantle (Alchemilla 

 alpina] ; Alpine Fleabane (Erigeron alpinus] ; Alpine Milk- 

 vetch (Astragalus alpinus), a thorny plant of the Legu- 

 minous tribe, not unlike Gorse in its general character; 

 and the small Alpine Gentian (Gentiana nivalis), a pretty 

 little flower which also grows in Scotland, and is not un- 

 like Gentiana amarella in appearance. "We also find a kind 

 of Buckwheat (Polygonum viviparum} ; a very handsome 

 flower of the Composite family, something like a Marigold, 

 called Arnica montana; a species of Mountain Avens (Dry as 

 integrifolia) ; a grass called Alpine Soft Grass (Holcus al- 

 pinus} ; two or three kinds of Lousewort (Pedicularis) ; and 

 besides these, our common Ribwort Plantain (Plantago 

 lanceolata} ; a species of Mouse-ear Chick weed (Cerastium 

 viscosum} ; Mountain Sorrel (Oxyria reniformis) ; and Sea 

 Arrow-grass (Triglochin maritimum} . We next find a plant 

 of the Colchicum family (Tofieldia borealis] ; the flowers are 

 greenish- white, but very small, growing in a cluster at the 

 end of the long flower-stalk, which springs out of a bunch 



