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into linear divisions. This plant was formerly Been along the trail 

 to the summit. The writer failed to see a single plant la-t summer 

 along that route, it doubtless makes too good b Bouvenir to be let 

 alone. Pdlemoniutn degans may be known by its Btrong odor, 

 alternate pinnately parted viscid leaves, and cymulose cluster of 

 blue flowers with \ell<>u centers. A -mall aster, Erigeron composi- 

 . having pinkish flower ami dissected leaves, grows here. HuLsea 

 Nana, another composite plant, may he known by its large yellow 

 Bowers, 2 to inches high, with sticky pinnatifid leave-, mostly 

 radical, from a long branching rootstock. This plan! also i- now 



U'a lupine (Lu/Jinug lyai 

 Color of flower :.•; bright o( pLur - ma July ami Anpust. 



man. 



g • e trail to the summit. It is aol likely that the tourist 

 would carry this plant after its viscid quality was discovered, though 

 it- larg _ den yellow flowers would tempt the flower destroyer 

 t<> pluck it. 



Draba a yellow mustard, grows rather sparingly on the 



rock} 1< I mp Mhir ami a' similar altitudes around the 



mountain. It- lower leaves are oblanceolate, usually less than half 

 an inch long, ami the upper are oblong. It i- densely pubescent all 

 nver. even the oblo pods being covered with line Btellate 



hair-. s mother hardj plant which belongs to the 



