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iive is L. po/ycar/>iiS GreeuQ, with which this species could not 

 well be confused, even by the most careless obseiver. To L. 

 apriciis, though, it bears considerable resemblance, and the two 

 grow in company. But L. apricus has a larger flower, the broad 

 banner as well as the whole flower of an entirely different shape, 

 as may be noted by referring to Muhlenbergia 6: 138, 139. 



ALPINE PLANTS— I. 

 By p. Beveridge Kennedy 



Phlox dejecta Nelson and Kennedy, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 

 19; 37. 1906. 



(With cover illustration) 



A recent visit to the exhibition of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society in London, and to the Botanic Garden at Kew showed 

 to the writer the unusual interest and enthusiasm displayed in 

 alpine plants by not only professional botanists and horticultur- 

 alists, but by hundreds of English ladies and gentlemen, many 

 of them among the nobility. They maintain with the greatest 

 pride and care artificial rockeries with many different alpine 

 plants from all parts of the world. Indeed, the skill di>pia\cci 

 by European gardeners in growing so many of these dwarfs in 

 climates and at altitudes so greatly at variance with the natural 

 habitats of the plants is very wonderful. 



In order that persons interested in imitating as nearly as 

 possible the conditions and surroundings of some of these alpine 

 plants in their homes, we propose in a series of papers to illus- 

 trate and to tell something of the conditions under which they 

 live. 



The little Phlox that we have chosen for the first of the 

 series grows abundantly on the summit of Mt. Rose, Washoe 

 county, Nevada, at an elevation of 10800 feet. It is subjected 

 to exceedingly cold and changeable weather, but during the 

 coldest period of winter, reaching several degrees below zero, it 

 is protected by a deep covering of snow. Dotted here and there 

 among the lava rocks where it would be difficult to readily se- 



