Flowers in Colorado. 



flowers which we have at Colorado Springs, with many 

 others added. A short extract from a paper written by an 

 enthusiastic Canyon City botanist will give to botanists a 

 better idea of the flora of Colorado than they could get 

 from volumes of my rambling enthusiasm. 



" There is no pleasanter botanical trip in the vicinity of 

 Canyon City than a walk beyond the bath-rooms of the hot 

 springs to the gate of the mountains, up the canyon of the 

 Arkansas, and to the top of the Grand Canyon, a distance 

 of about four miles. The grandeur of the far mountain 

 summits covered with eternal snow, the perpendicular cliffs 

 over one thousand feet high, the great river boiling and 

 dashing along its rocky channel, are sources of excitement 

 nowhere else combined ; but to any one interested in flow- 

 ers, their beauty, their abundance, and the rare species that 

 meet you at every step make the trip wonderfully interest- 

 ing. Here among the rocks are the most northern known 

 stations of the ferns, pellaea wrightiana and cheilanthes 

 eatoni ; and on the walls of the Grand Canyon, more than a 

 thousand feet above the river, grows the very rare asplenium 

 septentrionale, which the wild big-horn, or mountain sheep, 

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