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often embedded >>n moss-covered rocks. Along the streams there 

 are several other species, which grow hero and there with reniform 

 leave.- and small white flowers. 



The spring beauty, Claytonia lancedlata, is common on the <h\ 

 grassy -lope-, and may he known by its low stemless habit, pink 

 Bowers, and lanceolate leaves from a tuberous root which was used 

 by the Indians for food. The Indian basket grass occurs in several 

 of the meadows up in this area. In the upper pari of Paradise Vallej . 

 on the ridge wesl of Sluiskin Falls, there i- a large held of it near t im- 



fraga tolmiei). 



Color of flower, white: hekht of plant. 3 to 4 inches; Mooms July and August 

 l'hotograpli I irtis. 



her line. These plants an- found in full bloom long after those below 

 have '/"in- t" seed. This plant furnishes an excellent example of 

 what altitude do.- for a plant. It extends from 2.7.">o feet, at Long- 

 mire Springs, to timber line, about 7,000 feet. 

 The Ala-ka spiraea, Lttikea /" cti natn . forms clusters often exclud- 

 g other plant-. It- creeping habit enables it to form heather-like 

 It has -:."rt -hnihhv stems l to (i inches high, bearing a dense 



raceme r,f -mall white flower- : leave- twice or thrice palmately three 



cleft. These mat- of sharply cleft t»ri^lit green have- are very notice- 

 able even when the plant i- not in bloom. In and nmnng these mat- 



