Planche 7. 



Plantes alpines de haute 

 taille. 



Toutes les figures en echelle reduitel 



Fig. 1. Gentiane jaune. Plante luxuriante, 

 tige atteignant un metre de hauteur, feuilles 

 hirges, profondement sillonees; corolles jaunes, 

 fendues jusqu'a la base: par ce caractere 

 cette gpntiane diflere de toutes les autres. La 

 racine sert a la distillation de 1'eau de vie de 

 gentiaue. 



Commune, souvent tres-repandue sur les 

 paturages de la region subalpine jusque vers 

 la limite des neiges eternelles (1600 a 2460 m). 



Fig. 2. Gentiane pourpre. Se distingue des 

 autres Gentianes des Alpes par !a couleur rouge 

 do ses fleurs, et par son calice fendu d'un cote 

 et par son odeur de rose. 



Paturnges, gazons, endroits pierreux, de 

 1600 a 2700 in. 



Fig. 3. Gentiane ponctu^e. Facile a re- 

 connaitre & sa corolle jaune pale, tachetee de 

 points noiratres. 



Localites de la precedente, de 1500 a 

 2800 m. 



Ces trois grandes gentianes s'entrecroisent 

 facilement et donnent naissance aux hybrides 

 suivants : 

 G. lutea x punctata (G. Charpentieri, Thomas) 



Avers, Cbaumenie, Taney, vallee de 



Roseg et de Bevers. 

 G. lutea x purpurea (G. Thomasii Hall, fil.) Col 



de Bise, Dent du Midi, Mauvoisin, Zinal, 



Glacier of the Rhone. 

 G. punctata x purpurea (G. Gaudiniana Thomas). 



Taney, Col de Balme, Mt. Fully, Chanrion, 



Reckingen, Avers. 



Fig. 4. Gentiane asclepiade. Portant les 

 grandes fleurs d'un bleu fonce des gentianes des 

 Alpes sur une haute tige et des feuilles opposees 

 en croix, fleurit en automne ; paturages humides, 

 clairieres de forets de la plaine jusqu'a 2000 m. 



Fig. 5. Grande Sarrette des alpes. La plus 

 grande de nos Composees alpines , les feuilles 

 basilaires sont laineuses en dessous, les tiges de 

 la hauteur d'un homme sont couronnees 

 d'eno/mes capitules. 



Eboulis gazonneux, rare, 1500 a 2100 m. 



Pays d'en haut du canton de St. Gall, 

 Churfirsten, Alpes d'Appenzell, Grisons, Valais, 

 Vaud. 



Fig. 6. Panicaut des Alpes. (Chardon bleu.) 

 OmbellifSre presentant le port et 1'aspect d'un 

 chard on. Les fleurs forment un capitule 

 oblong entoure d'un involucre de feuilles ele- 

 gamment laciniees d'une belle couleur bleu- 

 amethiste. 



Distribute sporadiquement dans certains 



K-es des Alpes, entre 1'aune des Alpes et 

 rhododendron, ainsi que sur certains ver- 

 sants rocheux ou rocailleux. (Par. ex. Alpes 

 de Vouvry a 1'extremite orientale du Leman, 

 Chaumeny, Bourg St. Pierre, Alpes de Fri- 

 bourg, Distelwand au passage du Joch sur 

 Engelberg, entre les Niedersurenen et 1'Ebnet, 

 Nufenen (Rheinwald), St. Antonien dans le 

 Praettlgau). 



Plate 7. 

 Tall Alpine Herbs. 



All the Figures on a reduced scale. 



Fig. 1. Yellow Gentian. A luxuriant plant 

 attaining a height of a metre and with huge, 

 deeply veined, broad leaves and yellow corolla 

 which is divided down to its base. This last 

 peculiarity distinguishes it from all other 

 Gentians. The great roots, which are often 

 more than a metre long, serve like those of 

 the other large Gentians as material for the 

 ,,Gentian-bitter" or ,,Jenzner". 



Common and generally growing in large 

 numbers together on Alpine pastures, from the 

 mountain region up to the snowline (1000 to 

 2400 m). It has in some places become rare 

 by being uprooted. 



Fig. 2. Purple Gentian. Distinguished from 

 the other Alpine Gentians by the colour of its 

 flowers and by its calyx being divided on 

 one side. 



Pastures, ,,Wildheuplatze", stony places, 

 from 16002700 m. 



Fig. 3. Spotted Gentian. Easily known from 

 all other Gentians by its yellow corolla which 

 is only very little divided and which is almost 

 always spotted with blackish-red dots. 



Habitat as for the preceding; from 1500 

 to 2800 m. 



These three large Gentians form various 



hybrids by means of cross- fertilisation namely; 



G. lutea x punctata (G. Charpentieri Thomas) 



Avers, Chaumeuy, Taney, and the Roseg 



and Bevers valleys. 

 G. lutea purpurea (G. Thomasii Hall. Fil.) 



Col de Bise, Dent du Midi, Mauvoisin, 



Zinal, glacier of the Rhone. 

 G. punctata x purpurea (G. Gaudiana 



Thorn.) Taney, Col de Balme, Mt. Fully, 



Chanrion, Reckinger, Avers. 



Fig. 4. Swallow-wort Gentian. Bears the 

 large deep-blue bells of the Alpine gentians on 

 a tall stem, which is either straight, with the 

 leaves placed in opposite pairs or it is bent 

 over, in which case the leaves are twisted, so as 

 to be all in one plane. 



Damp meadows, woods, amongst alpine 

 alders and stone-pines, from the plains up to 

 2000 m. 



Fig. 5. Great Alpine Sawwort. This is the 

 most stately of the Alpine composites; the 

 radical leaves are covered on their under side 

 with a white fur, the stems are almost man-high 

 and are crowned with gigantic heads sur- 

 rounded by an envelope of rough scale-like 

 bracts. When fresh, it has a strong goatish 

 smell. Grassy slopes of debris, ,,Wildheupl5tze" 

 and mountain meadows; not common, from 

 about 15002100 m. (Oberland of St. Gallen, 

 Churfirsten, Alps of Appenzell, Mans, Grau- 

 bunden, the Valais and Vaud. 



Fig. 6. Alpine Eryngo. One of the Umbellate 

 family, which however appears ,,in thistle's 

 clothing". The single flowers form a length- 

 ened head, which is surrounded by a ring of 

 prettily cut involucral leaves of a most delicate 

 amethyst-blue. Grows sporadically on Alpine 

 meadows with deep soil, amongst Alpine Roses 

 and Alpine alders, on stony, rocky slopes (for 

 instance in the Alpes de Vouvry on the lake of 

 Geneva, Chanmeny, Bourg St. Pierre, the Alps 

 of Fribourg, by the D'stelwand (thistlewall) on 

 the Jochpass near Engelberg, between Nieder- 

 surenen and Ebnet. 



