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FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



is a small plant about 3 to 6 inches high with opposite ovate leaves 

 and raceme of blue-violet flowers. It is a very abundant plant at 

 an altitude of about 5,000 to 6,000 feet on all sides of the moun- 

 tain. What it lacks in size it makes up in abundance and does 



Fir: . 19.— Potent ilia flabellifolia. 



Color of flower, yellow; height of plant, 8 lo 16 inches; blooms July and August. 

 Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 



much underneath the mertensias, lupines, and polemoniums to 

 render prominent the blue color in the flower beds. The Indian 

 paint brush, CastiUeia oreo-pola, attracts more attention, perhaps, 

 than any other plant of its size on the mountain, because of its bright 



