REDSTEM SAXIFRAGE 
Saxifraga lyallit Engler 
When traveling over the higher mountain regions above timber- 
line, we frequently found the sloping banks of the tiny valleys spread 
with carpets of redstem saxifrage. Where the soil was wet by drip- 
pings from snowbanks, the tiny red and white flowers, carried well 
above the tufts of leaves on their red stems, reached their greatest 
perfection. When clumps of parnassia ate associated with them, the 
effect is beautiful indeed. 
Redstem saxiftage isa plant of narrow range, being found only from 
Montana and Alberta to British Columbia and Alaska. 
The flowets sketched were obtained near Baker Lake, fifteen miles 
by trail from Lake Louise, at an altitude of 6,500 feet. 
PLATE 363 
