Planche 3. 



Buissons alpestres (Suite). 



Fig. 1. Clematite des Alpes. Liaue, tres 

 parente de la clematite de Ja plaine, mais au 

 calico bleu et cauapanule et a 14 a 18 petits 

 petales blancs et spatules. Le fruit se compose 

 de noinbreuses graines suruiontees d'un style 

 pluineux. 



Buissons de la region des ConifSres. Saleve, 

 Alpes vaudoises et fribourgeoises , Orisons 

 (Engadine, St. Antonien, Val d'Avers); se trouve 

 aussi aux Pyrenees dans les Carpathes et en 

 Siberie. 



Fig. 2. Heliantheme commun; fleur du soleil. 

 Un petit arbrisseau a feuilles opposees sans sti- 

 pules et a grandes fleurs jaunes. Le calice se 

 compose de deux petites et de trois plus graudes 

 feuilles. 



Paturages maigres niais exposes au soleil, 

 eboulis, depuis la plaine jusqu'si 2800 m. 



Fig. 3. Aune vert. Arbrisseau haut de 

 2 m, a tiges flexibles et a chatous femelles 

 et inasculins sur la ruSme plante, fleurit au 

 premier priutemps. 



Comme menu bois dans la forfit alpine, 

 surtout au versant nord jusqu'a 200m au-dessus de 

 la region des forets il couvre des pentes emigres, 

 et lixe ainsi le terrain; repandu depuis 1200 a 

 2100m, il se trouve aussi dans leNorddel'Europe, 

 de 1'Asie et de 1'Amerique. 



Fig. 4. Genevrier nain. Arbuste lampant 

 et formant des tapis epais. II se distiugue du 

 genevrier commun de la plaine par ses feuilles 

 plus larges, plus tendres et plus appliquees. 



Paturages maigres et sees, endroits pierreux 

 de 1600 a 3600 m, repandu aussi dans la region 

 arctique, au Caucase et dans 1'Himalaya. Une 

 mauvaise herbe des paturages. 



Fig. 5. Globulaire & feuilles cordees. Petits 

 rameaux rampants, a feuilles arrondies au 

 sommet ou echancrees, fermes, coriaces; in- 

 florescence nue ou pourvue de une a deux 

 ecailles. 



Rockers ensoleilles, eboulis, pentes ro- 

 cheuses, dominant les lacs prealpius jusqu'a 

 2670m; de preference sur le calcaire. 



Fig. 6. Groseiller alpin. Petit arbrisseau 

 se distinguant par ses feuilles plus petites et 

 d'un vernis grasseux dans la face inferieure; 

 les grappes sont dressees et le petit arbre porte 

 seulement des fleurs d'et amines ou des fleurs 

 de pistils. Bosquets de la region du Hetre ou 

 des Cpniferes de 1000 a 2000 m. 



Bien repandu au haut Nord (Scandinavie, 

 Siberie, Kamtschatka, Laponie). 



Plate 3. 

 Alpine Shrubs. 



Fig. 1. Alpine Clematis. A climber nearly 

 allied to the coimnou wild Clematis, with a 

 blue bell-like calyx and 1418 small white, 

 spade -shaped petals of which the inner ones 

 gradually pass into the numerous (4060) 

 stamens. The seeds consist of numerous separate 

 carpels crowned with a feathery style. 



In bushy localities of the pine region. 



Fig. 2. Common Rockrose. A low small 

 plant with opposite leaves without stipules and 

 with large yellow flowers. The calyx consists 

 of two smaller and three larger sepals; the 

 stamens are numerous and sensitive. In the 

 Alps with larger flowers, as figured in the plate 

 (var. grandiflora Dl.). 



Sunny barren meadows and ridges (Wildheu- 

 platze*), slopes of debris, from the plains up 

 to 2800 m. 



Fig. 3. Alpine Alder. A shrub of con- 

 siderable size attaining a height of 2 m with 

 flexible branches. The male and female catkins 

 are found on the same specimen; flowering in 

 the early spring. Beginning as underwood, 

 the Alpine alder often forms extensive copses, 

 especially on the northern slopes and ascends 

 some 100200 in above the tree limit. 



Kare in the hilly region, frequent above 

 1200 m and ascending up to 2100 m. In the 

 polar regions forming a belt outside the northern 

 forest-line (absent in Scandiuavia) and in the 

 mountains of central Europe, but absent in the 

 intermediate region. 



Fig. 4. Dwarf Juniper. A recumbent spreading 

 shrub, forming dense masses. Differing from 

 the common Juniper (J. communis) of the plains 

 in its broader, softer, more close lying leaves 

 and its fruit which is as long as the leaf that 

 protects it (in J. communis it is only (V Vs as 

 long). There are however transitions between 

 both species in the region between 1500 and 

 1700m. 



On dry barren pastures and stony slopes 

 from 16003600 m. In the arctic region 

 around the pole; also in the Caucasus and 

 in the Himalaya. 



Fig. 5. Heart -leaved Globularia. A small 

 creeping plant forming clumps, leaves blunt at 

 their tips or somewhat hollowed out, thick and 

 leathery; the flowerstalk naked or with one or 

 two bracts. 



On sunny rocks, slopes of debris and stony 

 localities from the level of the prealpine lakes 

 up to 2670 m, more especially on chalk. 



Fig. 6. Alpine Currant. Small shrub differing 

 from the other species of currants in its small 

 leaves being shing, in its hermaphrodite flowers 

 (the one shrub ocars male, the other female 

 flowers) and its upright flower stalks. 



Among undergrowth of the beech and conifer 

 region , from about 10002000 m. In the far 

 North not widely distributed (Scandinavia, Lap- 

 land, Siberia, Kamtschatka). 



*) There is no English word for this term, 

 which signifies a steep , highly elevated Belt 

 of grass which is mown by the "Wildheuern" 

 that is to say it is not private property. It 

 approximates to "Common lands" which belong 

 to the Lord of the Manor but over which the 

 tenants have grazing and other rights such as 

 cutting bracken etc. 



