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line. Leaves with seven and nine or even more leaflets are 

 common, especially where the struggle for existence is keen as 

 in dry, gravelly spots, and some leaves even assume a pinnate 

 form under these conditions. 



P. dissecta var. glaucaphylla Lehm. is abundant along stony 

 water-courses up to 12,500 feet and is the earliest spring-blooming 

 species. It is the only smooth-leaved Potentilla within the zone 

 and the leaves are toothed only at the apex in marked contrast 

 to the many lobes and divisions of the leaves of the other species. 

 The species itself does not appear within the zone. 



P. bipinnatifida Dougl. occasionally may be found well above 

 timber line. It is abundant at 11,000 feet and at that altitude 

 is a robust and branching plant. Above timber line it occurs only 

 along the trails and is a small plant with contracted leaf surface 

 and few flowers. In these situations it blooms in late August 

 and seldom exhibits perfect development. 



Dasiphoya fructicosa (L.) Rydb. appears up to 12,500 feet and 

 is especially noticeable among the alpine flowers for its shrubby 

 habit. While it becomes quite dwarf and prostrate at the alti- 

 tudinal limit, its bright yellow flowers make it always conspicuous 

 and unmistakable, 



Blanche Soth 



Manitou, Colorado 



ADAM IN EDEN OR NATURE'S PARADISE* 



Extracts by Jean Broadhurst 



CHAP. XIII 



0/ Misselto 



The Forme. 



MIffelto is an excrefcence arising from the branch or arm of 

 the Tree whereon it groweth with a woody ftemme, part- 

 ing it felf into fundrj' branches; * * * within the berry is 

 contained a fmall black kernell or feed, which hath been put into 

 the ground, and other places, but was never j^et known to grow, it 

 being indeed without any root. 



* Illustrated with the aid of the Catherine McManes fund. Continued from 

 August, 1910. 



