FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONA] PARK. 



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ccmu 1 and ir<>. changing as 1>\ magic; in Sower one week and in seed 

 the next. The most conspicuous of the later plants is the valerian, 

 Yaltriititti sitehensis (fig. 22). This is also wrongly called the moun- 

 tain heliotrope on account of its small pinkish white flowers in <\ mes, 

 resembling the common garden heliotrope though having no rela- 

 tionship. It is a tall plant with B strong characteristic odor; the 

 Leaves are pinnate, the upper leaflet being by far the largest. It is 

 usually one of the tallest plant- in these flower beds in the neighbor- 

 hood of 5,500 feet and grows abundantly, beginning to bloom in 



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l"ic 18.- -StikBdorPs buttercup (.Ranunculus guksdorfii 



r of flower, yellow; height of plant, 5 to 12 inches; blooms July and August. 



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arlv pari of July. It continue- to bloom until the middle of 

 August or the first of September. 



Mertenna laevigata (fig. 23 is another plant between 2 and •'! feet 

 high with raceme of hlne-purple (lower- and thin ovate leave-. The 

 Arctic lupine. Lupinus subalpinus (fig. 24), grows with the above, 

 igh it i- not -o tall, hut i- really more conspicuous because of 

 it- many radiate flower -talk- with long raceme- of pealike purple 

 flowers and pahnately compound leave-. Polemonium pulcheUum 

 0iu r . 25 i- another handsome plant with pinnate leaves and blue 

 flowers in cymulose clusters. Cusick's speedwell, Veronica cusichii, 



