Planche 2. 

 Buissons alpestres (Suite). 



Fig. 1. Daphng stri6. DittSre des Rhodo- 

 dendrons par 1'absence de calico et par la 

 corolle divisee en quatre (et non en cinq) lobes; 

 fleurs d'un parfum tres prononce. 



Commun dans les endroits pierreux, les 

 gazons eleves, de 1700 a 28uO m. 



Fig. 2. Daphne Mezereon. (Bois gentil). 

 Fleurs paraissant au premier print emps avaut 

 les feuilles. Baies rouges veneneuses. 



Des forfits de la plaine jusqu'aux patu- 

 rages rocailleux, aux eboulis et aux champs 

 de rhododendrons de la region des Alpes, 

 jusqu'a 2100 m env. 



Fig. 3. Chevre-feuille bleu. Arbrisseau de 

 1 2 m de hauteur, rameaux d'un brun rou- 

 geatre, feuilles opposees, ovaires inferes, les 

 tleurs sont reunies deux deux et leurs ovaires 

 sout soudes. Baies d'un bleu fonce a. la 

 maturite. 



Repandu dans les forgts de pins et de sa- 

 pins de la region alpine et surtout dans les 

 buissons d'arolles et de rhododendrons; plus 

 bas aussi dans les marais. En Valais de 

 1000 a 2000 m. 



Fig. 4. Eglantine des Alpes. Rameaux 

 floriferes le plus sou vent sans epines. Les 

 surgeons (rameaux de 1'annee qui ne portent 

 pas de fleurs) pourvus d'epines serrees. Feuilles 

 ayant de 7 a 11 folioles. Fruit retreci en 

 haul en form de cou. 



Repandu dans les forets et les halliers de 

 la region montagneuse jusqu'a 2600 m. 

 Manque dans le Nord. 



Fig. 5. Saule reticule. Petit arbuste 

 rampant, s'etalant sur le sol. Feuilles epaisses, 

 coriaces, bords enroules; face superieure 

 d'un vert fonce et profondement veiuee, la 

 face inferieure vert-bleuatre a nervures forte- 

 meut sail I ants. 



Endroits pierreux, eboulis, humus, patu- 

 rages maigres, de 1600 a 3000 m. 



Fig. 6. Saule 6mousse. Arbrisseau nain 

 rampant, feuilles tronqueea ou emarginees au 

 sommet, i bord entier. Chatons fleurs 

 nonih reuses (chez 1'espece voisine, Salix ser- 

 pyllifolia Scop, les feuilles sont plus petites, 

 souvent pointues et les chatons n'ont que de 

 3 a 7 fleurs). 



Comme le precedent de 1280 a 3000 m. 



Fig. 7. Saule serpolet. Tres parent au 

 precedent; mais les feuilJes plus petites, souvent 

 aigues! Chatons settlement de 3a7 fleurs. 



Surtout BUT le oalcaire ca. 2000 a 3000 m, 

 manque au Nord. 



Fig. 8. Saule herbace. Le plus petit arbrel 

 Tiges et branches toutes cachees dans la terre, 

 seulernent les derniers rameaux a 2 ou 3 pe- 

 tites feuilles et aveo un chaton terminal 

 depassant le sol, en formant souveut des 

 pelouses compactes. 



Humus et depressions enneigees de 1800 & 

 8350m. 



Fig. 9. Dryade a huii pdtales. Un tout 

 petit arbuste de la famille des Rosacees A grandes 

 fleurs blanches avec huit pet ales. La feuillo 

 coriacee* est enroulee et en tail lee aux bords. 



Paturages, humus, crdtes, eboulis, surtout 

 sur le calcaire , de 1000 a 2900 m , descendant 

 Bouvent plus baa. 



Flute 2. 

 Alpine Shrubs (Continued). 



Fig. 1. Striped Mezereon (Daphne). Easily 

 distinguished from the Alpine Rose (pL 1, figs 

 9, 10) by the absence of a calyx and by the 4 

 lobes of its corolla (instead of 5) : strongly scented. 



Widely distributed on stony places, on 

 arStes etc., from 17002500 m. 



Fig. 2. Mezereum Daphne, Spurge -olive. 

 The flowers appear at the beginning of the 

 spring before the leaves; the red berries are 

 poisonous. From the woods of the plains up 

 to the stony pastures, slopes of debris and 

 amongst alpine Roses of the Alpine region up 

 to 2luO m. 



Fig. 3. Blue-fruited Honeysuckle. A shrub 

 12 metres high; twigs of a reddish brown, 

 leaves opposite, flowers in pairs, the seeds which 

 are blue are joined together. 



Spread over the regions of the Pine forests 

 and in the Alpine region, especially amongst 

 undergrowth of alpine Roses and stone pines; 

 on moors it descends lower. 



Fig. 4. The Alpine Rose. The flowering 

 branches are usually without prickles. The 

 shoots with prickles pointing down wards. Leaves 

 with 711 leaflets. Fruit (hip) is narrowed 

 towards the top, with a more or less contracted 

 neck. 



Common in woods stony and bushy places 

 from the mountain region up to 2600 m. 

 Absent in the North. 



Fig. 5. Reticulated Willow. A small low 

 growing shrub forming cushions. Leaves thick, 

 leathery, rolled back at the margins, on the 

 upper side dark green and witb sunken veins, 

 on the lower side of a bluish green and with 

 strongly protruding veins Flowers in catkins. 

 Stony places, slopes of debris, poor meadows, 

 from 16003000 m. 



Fig. 6. Blunt- leaved Willow. A low growing 

 shrub. The entire-margined leaves are blunt 

 at the top or somewhat indented. Catkins 

 with numerous flowers. In the nearly related 

 Salix serpyllifolia Scop, the leaves are smaller 

 and often wore or less pointed and the catkins 

 have only 3 7 flowers. 



Like the preceding species from 1280 3000m. 

 In the North, in Scandinavia and in the arctic 

 regions of Asia and America. 



Fig. 7. Thyme-leaved Willow. Closely allied 

 to the preceding species; leaves smaller and 

 more pointed; catkins with only 3 7 flowers. 



Especially on chalk, from about 2000 3000 m. 



Is absent in the arctic circle. 



Fig. 8. Herbaceous Willow. The ..smallest 

 tree"; the trunk and branches are entirely 

 hidden in the earth, only the enda of the twigs, 

 2 3 leaves and a terminal catkin are raised 

 above the ground and form extensive cushions 



indifferent as to soil, from 18003350 m. 



Fig. 9. White Dryas. A dwarf plant belong- 

 ing to the Rosefamily but with 8 petals : the 

 leaf is leathery, rolled back at the edge and 

 notched. The seeds form with their feathery 

 styles a small grey brush. 



On pastures, covering the rocky boulders 

 with green carpets, on aretes, slopes of debris, 

 from about I0t)0 29t>O m, in rocky places, often 

 descending lower; prefers chalk. Widely 

 distributed in the far North, Iceland, Greenland, 

 Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, arctic America. 



1* 



