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as well as the purple leek, grew in riotous profusion between Lone 
Star Geyser and the stream near it, while more wonderful was 
the luxuriant growth of green algae in the small stream near 
Fountain Geyser in water so hot that one could not bear to 
put his hand into it. 
In the flat lands near the smaller lakes to the south, the lodge 
pole pine woods were stretches of gray and blue, for here the blue 
lupine found most congenial conditions in the sunlight sprinkled 
through the scant tufts of needles and had a perfect background 
in the gray trunks. At Shoshone Lake the yellow pond-lily 
blossoms were of very large size and brilliant yellow, shading into 
deep orange, while rain made the shores of Lewis Lake abound 
in fleshy fungi about the first of August, species of Boletus 
Russula, and Lactaria being represented. 
At Snake River on the southern boundary of the park the coral 
honeysuckle gave pleasing change in color after the predominance 
of blue and yellow flowers. Here the sergeant of the military 
station had made a very decorative frieze of pressed and mounted 
plants for his room. 
The trees in the park are lodge pole and limber pines, fir, 
spruce, two species of poplar and willows. The forester in 
charge takes the utmost pains to prevent forest fires, which are a 
great menace to the beauty of the park, though the timber is not 
merchantable. The weight of the winter’s snow was evidenced 
by the curving branches of the pines and the height (ten feet or 
more from the ground) at which beavers had gnawed off the 
tops of the trees for their dams. 
Honeysuckles, species of Viburnum and Spiraea, wild currants 
and gooseberry bushes, and the white flowery raspberry grew 
along the wooded roadsides, while the sage-bush with stems six 
or eight inches in thickness grew in the drier, open and wind- 
swept areas. 
The mosses were apparently represented by only a few species 
and but one liverwort, a Marchantia, was observed. 
Altogether the effect of the massing of such quantities of a 
given kind of flower was more like what one sees in England 
than anywhere in the eastern United States. , 
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