738 THE CRANIA OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. 
vulgaris. Claytonia Arctica, var. megarhiza, with large tufts of 
broad, fleshy leaves, grows on some very barren summits among 
the rocks, and by the freshness of its appearance in such a place, 
away above the range of the most dwarfed of high-alpine ‘plants, 
almost astonishes you. The flowers are quite similar to those of 
Claytonia Virginica, and the whole plant is rather fine looking. 
It has a marvellously large fleshy root, from which it was named 
by Dr. Parry, C. megarhiza. <A little, yellow-rayed composite, 
with heads of flowers scarcely raised above the surface of the 
rocky ground, is Aplopappus pygmæus; a pygmy indeed in contrast 
with some of its kindred species of the lower mountains and of 
the plains. A. Lyallii is another very dwarf, high-alpine species 
less frequently met with. 
Talinum pygmæum is a fine little dwarf, looking very like a 
Claytonia, but producing among its tufts of narrow fleshy leaves 
numerous very bright purple flowers. 
There remain yet many of these Alpine flowers well worth 
notice; but we are now far above the ‘ music of the pines,” 
looking downward over many a silvery lake, and over many 4 
wide-extended field of dazzling snow. Eastward lies the blue line 
of distant plains, and near us in the west are piled range on 
range of snow-streaked, rocky Mountains. The flowers that bloom 
at our feet we shall forget a moment, and enjoy the wondrous 
grandeur of this sublime landscape into which our botanizing has 
so delightfully led us. 
MOUND-BUILDERS. 
BY J. W. FOSTER, LL. D.* 
CERTAIN os Ee IN THE CRANIA OF 
TH 
Tue “Kennicott Mound,” near Chicago, yielded three frontal 
bones—the only parts of the skeletons capable of preservation — 
* An abstract of a paper read before n Sayr Meeting of the Amen Associ- 
ation for oe Advancement of Science, A ounds in : 
er giving ah account of the ancora’ pases that he had aai from m illus- 
: Indiana, 1 Tlinois and sly with a comparison of them with various other culls as 
trated drawings, Dr. Foster gives his conclusions ere he 
ea characters ir rede crania of the mound-building race, which W quote entire, 
preceded by a copy m drawing of the singular skull from the 
and his remarks upon i Wen regret that we are unable to print the paperin 
trust that it — soon sil in the volume of the Proceedings of the mee ting-— 
