88 GREEN TRAILS AND UPLAND PASTURES 



a foot or two, over a forest floor that has little under- 

 growth. Associated with the woods, too, is the fairy 

 twin flower, and the giant Indian hellebore (veratrum 

 viride), with its huge, lance-like leaves and its pale white 

 and greenish flowers. This plant, of course, is common 

 in the East, as "false hellebore," but owing to our 

 denser undergrowth it never seems so conspicuous. 



However, it is difficult to draw the line on the slopes 

 of the Rockies between the forest and the open, so fre- 

 quent are the glades, and so much do the flowers tend to 

 run from one to the other. The exquisite and common 

 admixture of blue larkspur (Delphinium Brownii and 

 its variations), purple lupine and Indian paint brush 

 (which in the same group, sometimes actually in the 

 same plant, ranges in colour from a greenish white 

 through scarlet to its standard tone of bright, bricky 

 oraijge), is found out in the open, and beside the trail 

 through broken timber as well. It is an even more com- 

 mon colour combination in the volcanic soil of the Cas- 

 cade Range, where acres upon acres are resplendent 

 with blue, purple, and orange. I have brought back to 

 the East a box of paint brush seed (castilleja miniata), 

 which I hope will have a chance to try our mountain soil. 

 But if it thrives as well in this region as its eastern cou- 

 sin, the brilliant painted cup, our farmers may not thank 

 me! 



A striking plant which you frequently encounter, in- 

 variably close to the edge of a little brook, is the monkey 



