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been induced to take steps for the strict preserva- 

 tion of whatever flowers are menaced with extinc- 

 tion. In this way Cyclamen europceum, for instance, 

 is receiving special and timely protection in Savoy ; 

 Gentiana lutea in the Swiss Tyrol ; Iris virescens 

 around Sion ; Cypripedium Calceolus in the Rhone 

 Valley and other districts ; Androsace Vitelliana at 

 Zermatt ; Campanula ecccisa at Saas-Fee ; Andro- 

 sace Charpentieri in the Canton of Ticino ; Pyrola 

 umbellata in the Commune of Andelfingen, Canton 

 of Zurich ; Cerinthe alpina in the Jura ; Adonis 

 vernalis in the Rhone Valley ; Tulipa silvestris at 

 Bex and around Geneva ; Erythronium Dens-canis 

 around Geneva ; and Eryngium alpinum and Atra- 

 gene alpina wherever they are to be found. 



The movement, then, is not of mushroom growth. 

 It has meant many years of ceaseless endeavour, 

 often anxious, often dispiriting, and often prosecuted 

 with an imperative degree of patient diplomacy. 

 Unaided at first by the Government, it lacked 

 authority to impose its principles. Its appeal was 

 to the public conscience ; and this latter is notori- 

 ously apt to be a little hard of hearing. But 

 M. Henry Correvon (President of the Society until, 

 in 1908, it was absorbed by the Heimathschutz or 

 Ligue Suisse pour la Protection des Beautcs 



