348 POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



is one of the many hardy old friends we expected to meet 

 with again on the mountain-tops. Another shrubby plant 

 of the Heath family, PJiyllodoce c&rulea, called also Menziesia 

 carulea ; a shrubby little plant, though not more than four 

 or five inches high,- with blue blossoms, and thickly-set 

 yew-like leaves. Azalea procumbens, another Arctic Zone 

 plant ; it belongs to the Khododendron section of the Heath 

 family. The little blue-flowered Alpine Gentian (Gentiana 

 nivalis), a Scorpion Grass (Myosotis suaveolens), Alpine 

 Speedwell (Veronica alpind], and Rock Speedwell (V. saxa- 

 tilis). A small shrubby Willow (Salix arenaria), and a 

 little dwarf Birch (Betula nana), seldom more than two 

 feet high. 



Besides these, there are several species of Eushes, Reeds, 

 and Sedges ; and a few other plants are named, " which, 

 though less truly Alpine, are not found south of Scotland " 

 such as Pyrola uniflora, a yellow-flowered Butterwort (Pin- 

 gmcula alpma], a species of Bugle (Ajuga pyramidalis] , an 

 Orchis of the section Neottiea of Lindley, which is so un- 

 fortunate as to possess three different names, Goody era repens, 

 R. Br., Neottia repens, Swartz, and Satyrium repens, Linn. 

 Another of the same family, called Coral -root, of the tribe 

 Aretlmsea (Lindley), and in the same sad predicament, being 



