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ARCTIC RASPBERRY 



Rubus arcticus. Rose Family 



Stems: erect, branched at base. Leaves: trifoliolate ; leaflets sessile, 

 rhombic-ovate, unequally serrate. Flowers: solitary; sepals acute, equal- 

 ling the obovate entire petals. Fruit : light red, of several drupelets, edible. 



A dwarf alpine Raspberry, about six inches high, that 

 grows at an altitude of 8000 feet. It has a few large three- 

 parted leaves and one or two rose-pink flowers composed of 

 six long, widely separated petals. The long thin roots strike 

 straight down into the earth, and therefore when you attempt 

 to pick one of these little plants it usually comes up altogether 

 out of the ground in your hand. The Arctic Raspberry has 

 no prickles. 



LONG-PLUMED AVENS 



Geum trifloruin. Rose Family 



Stems : scape simple, three-flowered at the summit. Leaves : basal ones 

 tufted, petioled, interruptedly pinnate, with many small leaflets inter- 

 spersed among the numerous obovate larger ones ; leaves of the scape two 

 opposite, small, sessile pairs. Flowers : of five pale purplish-pink petals sur- 

 rounded by a persistent red calyx, five-bracteolate and five-lobed ; bract- 

 lets linear, slightly longer than the lanceolate, acute, erect lobes. Fruit; 

 head sessile ; style filiform and strongly plumose. 



A very curious plant. Its general appearance is that of 

 bearing three large dull red buds on a three-branched red 

 stem, with a number of little red bracts clustered at the 

 fork ; for the pale pink or yellowish petals are so snugly hid- 

 den away within the calyx that you do not observe them at a 

 casual glance. The closed calyx forms these fat buds, which 

 have five slender refiexed bracts set between their lobes, and 

 from their pointed tips protrude a number of yellow stamens. 



When the petals and sepals fall off the long plumose tails 

 that adorn the ripened heads of the Avens are exceedingly 

 attractive. 



Many long finely cut leaves grow at the base of this plant. 



