Planche 23. 



Fig. 1 et 2. Violette a long gperon. Feuilles 

 crenelees, eperon de m6me longueur que la 

 corolle. Paturages, humus, eboulis, de 1800 

 ft 3000 m. 



Fig. 8. Violette a deux fleurs. Se distingue 

 facilement des autrs violet tea jaunes des Alpes 

 par ses feuilles reniforines. 



Ruisseaux, endroits ombrageux et humides, 

 forets, eboulis arroses, de 1000 a 3000 m. 



Fig. 4. Violette du Mont Cenis. Feuilles ft 

 bords entiers, eperon aussi long que la corolle. 



Plante d'eboulis des Hautee- Alpes , parti- 

 culi6rement sur le calcaire, et principalemeiit 

 dans la chaine septentrionale ; rare dans les 

 Alpes orientales, et en general pas frequente. 



Fig. 5. Soldanelle des Alpes. Corolle tres 

 delicate et se detachant facilement; pour la 

 conserrer en herbier, il faut secher la plante 

 dans un livre iramediatement apres 1'aToir 

 deracinee! La corolle est campanulee, plus 

 courte que le pistil, a limbo divisee profonde- 

 ment; tige portant do 2 a 4 fleurs. 



Tres repandue sur les pat ur ages riches en 

 humus, dans des depressions humides, de 1500 

 ft 2400 m (rarement dejft a 600 m), surtout sur 

 le terrain calcaire; vient tout de suite apres la 

 fonte des neiges. 



Fig. 6. Soldanelle delicate. Diflere de la 

 precedente par ses feuilles plus petites, sa corolle 

 moins divisee, moins ouverte, et plus longue 

 que le pistil. D'environ 1800 a 30UO m, plutdt 

 sur le terrain primitif. 



Fig. 7. Veronique des rochers. Se distingue 

 par ses fleurs bleues dont la gorge, cachant du 

 rniel, est entouree d'un fort anneau rouge qui 

 en indique 1'entree. 



Endroits rocheux ensoleilles, particuliere- 

 ment sur le calcaire, de 1300 a 2800 m, rare- 

 ment plus has. 



Fig. 8. Veronique des Alpes. Caracterisee 

 par ses grappes courtes, denses, et depourvues 

 de glandes. 



Repandue RUT les paturages et dans les 

 eboulis, de 1600 a 3050 m. 



Fig. 9. Valeriane naine. Cette espfice 

 forme des toufles herbeuses multicaules dont 

 les tiges rampantes se relevent a leur extremito 

 en rameauz dresses. 



Dans les eboulis, particulifirement sur le 

 calcaire. Espece exclusivement des Alpes orien- 

 tales qui n'atteint la Suisse que par la limite 

 occidental de son territoire. A 1'Orient des Gri- 

 sons (Scesaplana, Munsterthal, val Muscbems, 

 Scarlthal, Schiaborn, Arosa). 



Fig. 10. Joubarbe & toile d'araigr.ee. Facile 

 ft reconnaltre a sa rosette dc feuilles cotouncuses 

 et ft ses fleurs rouges de 9 a 12 pefales. 



Endroits sees, rochers exposes au soleil, 

 do 1700 ft 1900 m. 



Fig. 11. CeraTste a targes feuilles. Cinq 

 sepales et cinq petales, 10 etamines; capsule 

 allongee , en forme de come , s'ouvrant au 

 sommet par des dents. 



Elle se trouve sur les eboulis, les moraines 

 et les ciines, de 2000 ft 3500 m, en compagnie 

 de quelques especes voisiues trfis semblabies. 



Fig. 12. Lychnide des Alp.es (famUle des 

 o?illets). Elle en differe par ses cinq styles; 

 des oeillets n'en ont que deux. 



Paturages, gazons, de 2300 ft 2900 m. 



Fig. 13. Aisine printaniere. Se distingue de 

 tontes les Alslnees alpine s par ses 3 pistils, la 

 capsule ft 3 divisions, les petales non divises, 

 led feuilles glanduleuses et en forme d'aiguilles. 



Pres, paturages, crgtes, humus, de 1500 

 ft 3200 m. 



Plate 23. 



Fig. 1 and 2. Long-spurred Violet Leaves 

 notched, spur as long as the corolla. 



Meadows, boulder-covered slopes, from 1800 

 to 3000 m. 



Fig. 3. Two flowered- Violet. Easily dis- 

 tinguished from the other yellow Alpine Violets 

 by its broad kidney-shaped leaves. 



Banks of brooks, shady damp fissures in 

 the rocks, Alpine woods, moist gravel, from 

 about 10003000 m. 



Fig. 4. Violet of M. Cenis. Leaves entire- 

 margined, Spur as long as the corolla. 



A Debris-plant of the high Alps, espec. on 

 chalk and more in the N. chains; rare in the 

 E. Alps; on the whole not common. Sandalp, 

 Pilatus, Wengernalp etc. 



Fig. 5. Alpine Soldanella. The fragile corolla 

 falls very easily; it ought therefore at once to 

 be placed in a book. It is prettily fringed and 

 wide open like a funnel; it is as long as or 

 shorter than the style; the stem with 2 to 

 4 flowers. 



Like No. 6 one of the first harbingers of 

 the Alpine Spring. These fragile plants flower 

 close by the melting snow, often even in hollows 

 under the snow at a temperature of at most 

 1 C. (34 P.). 



On all Alpine pastures, snow valleys from 

 15002700 m (rarely at 600 m), espec. on chalk. 



Fig. 6. Dwarf Soldanella. Differing from 

 the preceding by its smaller leaves and by its 

 less open and less deeply cut corolla, which 

 latter is longer than the style. 



Like the preceding, from about 1800 tc 

 3000 m, prefers the primary formations. 



Fig. 7. Rock 'Speedwell. Characterised by 

 their blue flowers having a strongly marked 

 crimson ring at the base of the flower, showing 

 the way to the nectary. 



Sunny, rocky places, especially on chalk, 

 from 13002800 m, occasionally lower down. 



Fig. 8. Alpine Speedwell. Characterised by 

 short, compact, glandless racemes, by its radical 

 leaves not being arranged in rosettes and the 

 capsules not being toothed. 



Met with on grass and on debris, from 1500 

 to 3050 m. 



Fig. 9. Creeping Valerian. Forms many- 

 stemmed clumps with creeping shoots bent up- 

 wards at the ends. 



Among debris, especially on chalk; it is a 

 purely E. alpine species, which only touches 

 Switzerland on its western limit. 



Fig. 10. Cob -webbed House -leek. This 

 House-leek can easily be known by its globular 

 rosette of fleshy leaves which are covered as if 

 by a cob-web with loose hairs, and by it* 

 purplish-red, many-rayed flowers. 



Dry places, sunny rocks, from about 1700 

 to 2900 m. 



Fig. 11. Broad-leaved Mouse eared Chick- 

 weed. This plant, with several other species 

 nearly allied and distinguished with difficulty, 

 inhabits the stony slopes, moraines and boulders 

 of the high Alpine region, from about 2000 to 

 3500 m, espec. on chalk. 



Fig. 12. Red Alpine Catchfly. Belongs to 

 the family of the Pinks (Caryophyllaceae), but 

 has 5 styles (the real Pinks have only 2, the 

 Silene 3). 



On grass from 23002900 m. 



Fig. 13. Spring Aisine. Distinguished from 

 the numerous other Alpine species of Silene 

 by its 3 styles, its three-valved capsule, its 

 undivided petals, its needleshaped glandulous 

 leaves and its 3 4 flowered stem. 



Meadows etc. from 15003200 m. 



