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left naked rock walls tower up into peaks. Yet the 

 moist little meadow is as intimate and peaceful as a 

 cloistered garden, and in mid-July, when we were there, 

 was carpeted with chalice cups. The chalice cup 

 (anemone occidentalis) is, of course, in reality a spring 

 flower. Its cream-white blossom is from one to two 

 inches across, with a fluffy, golden-green centre. Later 

 this fluffy seed head expands into a feathery tuft on a 

 stalk a foot or two high, and is almost as attractive as 

 the flower. But until you have seen a Rocky Mountain 

 meadow carpeted with these large, beautiful, soft 

 anemones, you cannot know their charm. 



The mariposas of the Rocky Mountains are not to be 

 forgotten, either. The green-banded mariposa (calo- 

 chortus macrocarpus) throws up a straight, erect stem 

 and bears a lily of three pale lilac, concave petals, with a 

 green stripe down the centre. The calochortus alba, 

 however (a variety to be had of the Montana nursery- 

 men), found at such high altitudes as Mount Morgan 

 Pass, where its loveliness has only the sky and mountain 

 goat for witnesses, is the more beautiful of the two. It 

 is like Emerson's "rose of beauty on the brow of 

 chaos." 



Nor is the traveller likely to forget certain bits of road 

 or trailside at the foot of the range, near St. Mary Lake 

 on the east and Lake Macdonald on the west, where 

 Nature has planted border clumps of "wild hollyhock." 

 This delightful plant bears a stalk from four to six feet 



