Planche 5. 



Plantes alpines de haute 

 taille. 



Fig. 1. Raiponce a capitules arrondies. 



Caracterisee par 1'inlloresccnce arrondie avec 

 de courtes bractees a la base et par ses feuilles 

 basilaires cordiformes-lanceolees. 



Prairies maigres, pacages, des montagnes 

 et des alpes jusqu'a 2760 m, surtout sur le 

 calcaire, manque au Nord. 



Fig. 2. Raiponce de Haller. Facilement 

 reconnaissable aux capitules grandes ovales et 

 d'nn violet fonce. Pres a faucher de 1000 a 

 2GOU m. Mauque au Nord. 



Fig. 3. Lis des alpes. Cette magnifique 

 lis a Heurs d'un blatic tout-a-fait pur est une 

 des plus rares et des plus splendides plantes 

 des montagnes de 1'Europe moyenne; nous la 

 trouvons outre les Alpes, seulement encore dans 

 les Pyrenees, au Portugal et dans 1'Apennin. 

 Pres a faucher, gazons sauvnges de 1000 a 

 2100 m. Graue Homer, Ct. St. Gall; au-dessus 

 de Braunwald, Ct. de Claris, Engadin, Samnaun, 

 Avers Bcdretto Oberland Bernois, Valais, 

 Fribourg. 



Fig. 4. Etoile jaune de Liottard. Aussi une 

 Liliacee comme la precedente, caracterisee par 

 la tige villeuse et les etoiles floriferes jaunes 

 et a petales lanceoles. Paturages, depressions 

 enneigees, fleurit aussitot apres la fonte de la 

 ncige et prefere un sol engraisse de 1200 a 

 2470 m, manque aux Alpes des cantons de 

 St. Gall., d'Appenzell et de Glaris; au nord 

 seulement en Siberie. 



Fig. 5. Polemone bleu. Couronne mono- 

 petale, 5 etamines, 3 stigmates et une odeur 

 de groseilles noires. 



Prairies forestieres de la region des Coniferes, 

 souvent aussi cultives dans les jardins de paysans. 

 Grisons, Fribourg, Vaud, Jura Bernois et Neu- 

 chatelois. 



Fig. 6. Geranie des forets. Feuilles opposees, 

 tiges fructiferes, glanduleuses et petales non 

 ongles. 



Une plante repandue, mais pas estimee, 

 dos prairies grasses de la region montagneuse 

 jusqu'a 2B45 m. 



Plate 5. 

 Tall Alpine Herbs. 



Fig. 1. Globe -headed Rampion. Charac- 

 terised by its globular head of flowers with 

 short bracts at their base and by its cordiform- 

 lancetshaped radical leaves. The corolla of the 

 flowers, when opening, is slit down its sides 

 but the petals are joined towards their apex, 

 so that the corolla has grating-like openings. 



Poor meadows, cattle-ranges, grass slopes 

 etc. of the mountain and Alpine regions, up 

 to 2760 m. (Absent in the North.) 



Fig. 2. Mailer's Rampion. Easily known by 

 its large oviform, dark-violet head of flowers. 



On meadows etc. from 1000-2600 m. 

 (Absent in the North.) 



Fig. 3. Alpine Lily. This beautiful lily with 

 the snowy white of its flower- cups is one of 

 the most glorious , but rare ornaments of the 

 mountains of central Europe; it radiates from 

 its centre the Alps, only towards the Pyrenees, 

 towards Portugal and towards the Apennines. 



On meadows , belts of grass etc. from 1000 

 to 2100 m. (Graue Homer, above Braunwald, 

 Canton Glarus, Engadine, Samnauen, Avers, 

 Bernese Oberland, the Valais and the mountains 

 of Freiburg and Vaud.) 



Fig. 4. Liotlard's Gagea. Belongs like the 

 prrceding to the family of the lilies; it is cha- 

 racterised by its narrow-petalled, yellow, starlike 

 flowers and its hairy flower-stalk. Pastures 

 and snow valleys, flowering directly after the 

 melting of the snow; the p. ace of the flowers 

 is sometimes, though rarely, taken by clusters 

 of flesh-coloured bulbils. 



Is found especially on manured ground. 

 12002476 m (is absent in the Alps of St. Gallon, 

 Appenzell and Glarus). 



Fig. 5. Jacobs-ladder. Corolla with petals 

 growing together 5 stamens, 3 stigmas. Has a 

 peculiar odour resembling that of iilack-curnuits. 

 Meadows etc. of the pine region (Alps of the 

 .Grisons, of Freiburg and Vaud and in the 

 Beruese and Neufchatel Jura; often escaped 

 from gardens). 



Fig. 6. Wood Crane's-bill. Wood-Geranium. 

 Characterised by its non ungulated petals, its 

 fruit-stalks with glandular hairs and its opposite 

 leaves. 



Forms a common but unwished for con- 

 stituent of the rich meadows of the mountainous 

 and pine region up to 2345 m. 



Note to plate IV. 



The species represented on plate IV belong 

 with the exception of Nos. 1 and 11 to the ,, alpine 

 flora" i. e. to those plants descending but rarely 

 and only in a small degree below the snowline. 

 They are excellently adapted to the raw climate 

 of the High-alps and to the dry rocky habitat 

 bytheir mode of growth. They are low, in order 

 to be as near as possible to the warmer soil; 

 their leaves are mostly covered with a thick 

 hairy fur, which protects them from a too intense 

 refrigeration and evaporation; their shoots are 

 closely compact like moss, in order to keep them 

 from a too exce;-sive radiation, and they are 

 themselves enveloped in the long-lasting remains 

 of the dead leaves. The whole cushion thus 

 forms a sponge, that preserves the moisture. 

 The flowers are generally close to the foliage. 

 These species are absent in the far North with 

 exception of Nr. 1, 9 and 11 and are far more 

 characteristic of our higher Alps than the Edel- 

 weiss, which is in reality a Siberian steppe-plant. 



SCHUSTER, Alpenflora. 



