MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 



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Wild Fire, or Fire Weed, is another common name for 

 this plant, and a very appropriate one, too, for it is marvellous 

 how quickly these stately, handsome flowers will cover over 

 and beautify those tracts of country that have been charred 

 and desolated by forest fires. 



" Strange flower, thy purple making haste 

 To glorify each blackened waste 



Of fire-swept land 

 Is with a blessed meaning fraught, 

 And we — when pain hath fully wrought — 



Shall understand." 



E. angustifoliuni var. canescens, or Pink Willow-herb, is 

 another species resembling the foregoing one, but having 

 lovely pale pink flowers marked by rose-coloured veins. 



WATER WILLOW-HERB 



Epilobiujn latifolium. Evening Primrose Family 



Stems : erect, branching. Leaves : sessile, entire, lanceolate, acutish at 

 both ends, thick. Flowers: magenta, in leafly-bracted racemes; petals 

 entire; stigma four-lobed. 



A very handsome species of Willow-herb, which grows in 

 wet places and marshes, or near water. It may always be 

 recognized by its large bright magenta flowers and the glau- 

 cous appearance of the stems and leaves, — that is to say, by 

 the whitish bloom which covers them. The leaves are also 

 thick and very soft. 



ALPINE WILLOW-HERB 



Epilobiuin anagallidifoliutn. Evening Primrose Family 



Stems : low, tufted, nodding at the apex. Leaves : oblong, entire, obtuse 

 at the apex. Flowers: few, axillary, clustered at the apex, nodding; 

 stigma entire. Fruit : seeds smooth, short-beaked, coma dingy white. 



A tiny dwarf plant, from two to six inches high, growing 

 on lofty summits. It has small magenta or sometimes white 



