My First Summer 



here and there, forming a small part of the 

 forest. Three pines, two silver firs, one 

 Douglas spruce, one sequoia, all of them, 

 except the two-leaved pine, colossal trees, - 

 are found here together, an assemblage of 

 conifers unrivaled on the globe. 



We passed a number of charming gar- 

 den-like meadows lying on top of the 

 divide or hanging like ribbons down its 

 sides, imbedded in the glorious forest. Some 

 are taken up chiefly with the tall white- 

 flowered Veratrum Californicum, with boat- 

 shaped leaves about a foot long, eight or 

 ten inches w r ide, and veined like those of 

 cypripedium, a robust, hearty, liliaceous 

 plant, fond of water and determined to 

 be seen. Columbine and larkspur grow on 

 the dryer edges of the meadows, with a tall 

 handsome lupine standing waist-deep in 

 long grasses and sedges. Castilleias, too, of 

 several species make a bright show with 

 beds of violets at their feet. But the glory 

 of these forest meadows is a lily (L. par- 

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