Planche 24. 



Fig. 1. Pyrole uniflore. Les etamines 

 s'ouyrent par des pores terminaux; le stigmate 

 est grand, globuleux ; la fleur toujours solitaire. 



Dans la forfit alpine, de 800 a 1800 m. 



Fig. 2. Pyrole unilateral. Reconnaissable 

 a ses fleurs vei datres tournecs d'un cote, et a ses 

 feuilles ovales-aigues, crenelees-dentees. 



Dans les forets des Alpes et des montagnes 

 jusqu'a 2000 m. 



Fig. 3. Petite pyrole. Se distingue par les 

 caracteres suivants: le style est droit au lieu 

 d'etre recourbe, et les anthfires sont reguliere- 

 ment inclinees autour du style. 



Dans les forSts de la plaine jusqu'a la 

 limite des bois, et au-dessus, dans les buissons, 

 jusqu'a 2400 m. 



Fig. 4. Erine des Alpes. Plante characte- 

 ristique des rochers calcaires ; en forme de touffes, 

 compactes, elle couvre souvent des blocs entiers, 

 remarquable par ces fleurs nombreuses, rouges 

 et tres gracieuses. 



De 1200 a 2350m, maia elle descend parfois 

 jusqu'a la plaine. 



Fig. 5. Cyclamen d'Europe (famille des 

 Primulacees). Cette plante possSde un tuber- 

 cule cbarnu cache profondement dans le sol, 

 des feuilles coriaces rouges en dessous et des 

 petales recourbes vers le haut. 



Lieux rocailleux, buissons, bois montagneux. 



Fig. 6. Pavot des Alpes. Les pavots ont 

 un calice a deux sepales caduques, des petales 

 chiffonnes dans le bouton, un grand nombre 

 d'etamines et un stigmate rayonnant, en forme 

 de disque papilleux. L'espece figures ci-contre 

 se reconnait a ses feuilles divisees en lobes 

 etroit et a ses fleurs blanches. 



Eboulis des alpes calcaires, de 1600 a 2600m. 



Fig. 7. Pavot des Grisons. Difiere du pre- 

 cedent par les lobes des feuilles plus larges 

 et poilus. 



Chaine de la Bernina, de 1800 & 2900 m. 



Fig. 8. Sanguisorbe officinale. Rosacee a 

 feuilles pennees et a tiges rauiifiees atteignant 

 un metre de haut. Les fleurs en capitules 

 serres ont exactement la mfime couleur que les 

 Nigritelles. 



Prairies marecageuses, de la plaine jusqu'aux 

 Alpes. 



Fig. 9. Civette des Alpes. Se distingue de 

 la civette de la plaine par sa taille plus haute, 

 ses antheres violettes et non jaunes, et 1'arome 

 plus fort. Parties humides de 1100 a 2500 m. 



Fig. 10. Safran printanier. La neige dis- 

 paratt et tout de suite se developpe du sol 

 encore tout brun cette plante avec ses graudes 

 fleurs d'un blanc pur ou d'un bleu clair; elle 

 couvert en compagnie des gracieuses Soldanelles, 

 souvent par milliers les endroits humides de la 

 region alpine et sub alpine et monte dans le 

 Valais jusqu'a 2300 m. 



Plate 24. 



Fig. 1. One-flowered Winter-green. The plant 

 is easily known by its 10 stamens by its large 

 headshaped stigma and by the single flower at 

 the end of the naked stalk. 



In mossy, shady Alpine woods, from 800 to 

 1800 m. 



Fig. 2. Serrated Winter-green. Known by 

 its greenish flowers being all turned the same 

 way and by its oval, pointed and notched leaves. 



In the woods of the mountain and Alpine 

 region up to 2000 m. 



Fig. 3. Lesser Winter-green. Differing from 

 No. 2 by its style being straight, not bent 

 and by its stamens converging regularly round 

 the style. 



In woods from the plains as far as the 

 tree-limit and among bushes even higher than 

 2400 m. 



Fig. 4. Alpine balsam. A well marked chalk 

 rockplant, growing in dense rosettes out of the 

 clefts of the rocks and spreading on all sides, 

 adhering closely to the rocks. 12002360 m, 

 often descending lower in rocky localities. 



Fig. 5. Cyclamen. Is characterised by its 

 flattened globular corm which is buried deep in 

 the earth, by its leathery leaves which are red 

 on the under side, by its sharply bent back 

 petals and by stems being spirally rolled in- 

 wards when the seed has set. 



Stony bushy places, woods of the mountain 

 region. Likes chalk. 



Fig. 6. White Alpine Poppy. The genus 

 Papaver is characterised by the two-leaved, 

 calyx which drop as the bud opens, by the petals 

 while in bud being folded, by its numerous 

 stamens, and by the shield-shaped stigma which 

 is crowned by dark rays of papillae; this species 

 is known by its usually bare leaves being divi- 

 ded into narrow lineal segments, and by its 

 white flowers. 



A detritus plant of the northern Chalk-alps 

 (also in the far North, but there with yellow 

 flowers), from about 16002600 m. 



Fig. 7. Rhaetic Poppy. Differing from the 

 preceding by its yellow flowers and the broader 

 segments of its leaves, which are hairy. 



Bernina-range, from 18002900 m. 



Fig. 8. Great burnet. One of the rosaceae 

 with pinnate leaves and branching stems which 

 reach the height of a metre. The crowded heads 

 of flowers are of the same colour as the Nigritella. 



On swampy meadows, from the plains to 

 the Alps. 



Fig. 9. Alpine Garlick. Differing from the 

 common gar lick in its greater height and in its 

 lilac (not yellow) anthers, with very strong 

 scent. Swampy localities from 11002500 m. 



Fig. 10. Spring Crocus. The delicate white 

 and violet flower-cups spring out of the bare 

 ground immediately after the melting of the 

 snow; they are protected by sheathing bracts 

 and appear to sprinkle the meadows anew with 

 snow. 



