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covered with a tall white lily-like plant (Asjrfiodilus 

 albus), the leaves of which the natives harvest, I 

 suppose for bedding for the cattle. All the Alpine 

 flowers are represented on these hills, but what 

 is perhaps more interesting are the many wild 

 varieties of our garden flowers — primula, carna- 

 tion, tulip, sweet-pea, and others, being represented. 

 There is also a sort of dwarf tiger-lily of a crushed- 

 strawberry colour. Orchids white and purple 

 abound, but the yellow foxglove is a rarer flower, 

 not, I am told, being found further west than this. 

 Here it is plentiful. As the summer advanced the 

 flowers, so to say, went up the hills, so that 

 violets, anemones, and so forth, were obtainable 

 near the summits months after they had dis- 

 appeared below. For instance, the blue gentian 

 was plentiful by the tent when first pitched, 

 but soon it was not to be found under 5000 

 feet. The beeches were in full leaf down below 

 when we first came, but the highest ones were 

 not even green. Yet the leaves of these latter 

 were more than half off before September was out. 

 Some people say the edelweiss is to be found in 

 the Velez, but I never could find it. It grows, 

 however, in the Divja Grabovica district, but there 

 the hills reach G877 feet. The lily of the valley 

 we found very plentiful, up to 5000 feet. 



From the middle of July there were plenty of 

 strawberries, not, however, equal in flavour to 



