Flowers in Colorado. 



Here is the purple pentstemon, never but a single row 

 of blossoms on its stem, and the scarlet pentstemon, most 

 gorgeous of its family. This, too, has but a single row of 

 flowers on its stem ; they are small, of the brightest scarlet, 

 and the shape is somewhat different from the other pent- 

 stemons ; longer, slenderer, and more complicated, they look 

 like fairy gondolas hung by their prows. I have seen the 

 stems as high as my shoulder, and the scarlet gondolas 

 swinging all the way down to within a foot of the ground. 



Here are great masses of a delicate flowering shrub, a 

 rubus, I think I have heard it called. Its flower is like 

 a tiny single-petalled rose, of a snow-white color. On first 

 looking at the bush, you would think it a wild white rose, 

 till you observed the leaf, which is more like a currant 

 leaf. Here also are bushes of the Missouri currant, with 

 its golden-yellow blossoms, exhaustless in perfume ; and a 

 low shrub maple, which has a tiny, apple-green flower, set in 

 a scarlet sheath close at the base of each leaf, so small 

 that half the world never discovers that the bush is in 

 flower at all. Here are blue harebells, and Solomon's seal 

 both low and high; and here is the yellow cinquefoil. In 

 the moist spots, with the white violets, grows the shooting 



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