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THE LOBELIA DECKENI, SENECIO AND TREE-HEATH, RUWENZORI MOUNTAINS, AFRICA 

 The whole valley is one mass of luxuriant vegetation of indescribable strangeness. The ground is 

 carpeted with a deep layer of lycopodium and springy moss, thickly dotted with big clumps of papery 

 .Ztl'J^^ Tk i-P'",-.' yf"°^' ^"d sdver-white "everlasting." Above these rise the tall columnar 

 ^rnH.f.^H ; K A^' ^^^e funeral torches beside huge groups of the monster senecio. The impression 

 produced IS beyond words to describe. The spectacle is weird, improbable, and unlike all familiar images. 



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