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ALPINE FLOWERS. 



Part I. 



the water wears itself arches in issuing from beneath the slowly 

 melting mountain of ice, is also of that tint. The wide expanse 

 of ground which we are traversing is simply a mighty bed of 

 shattered rock, which at a remote day was carried down by this 

 colossal, ever-gathering and ever-levelling machine, and it is now 

 covered with a scanty vegetation of alpine Rhododendron, and 

 high mountain plants. 



Fig 72, — The limit of the pines. 



Everywhere, and very pretty, is the mounUin form of the 

 Wood Forget-me-not, but no trace of the true Myosotis alpes- 

 tris. Apparently the white form of the Wood Forget-me-not 

 is very abundant among the blue, but upon looking closer, 

 the simple-looking white flower growing amongst the Forget- 

 me-nots is seen to be a white Androsace. Ever)'where the 

 large white flowers of the mountain Avens are covering the 

 surface, but as we are in such rich ground, we had better confine 



