MOURNING GROUNDSEL 



Senecio lugens Richardson 



Mourning groundsel is a peculiar plant, thriving in situations 

 where camps have been located, and blooming late in the flov^er- 

 ing season. The flower stalk, about a foot tall, rises from the center 

 of a rosette of large leaves, and from the top of the stem a half 

 dozen flowers on long stems sprawl irregularly. The name com- 

 memorates a massacre at Bloody Falls on the Coppermine River in 

 Yukon, within the Arctic Circle, where a party of Eskimos was de- 

 stroyed by Northern Indians who accompanied the explorer Heme. 



The range of mourning groundsel is from Montana and Wash- 

 ington northward to Yukon. 



Our sketch was made from a specimen found on the upper Pipe- 

 stone River, fifteen miles northwest of Lake Louise, at an altitude 

 of 5,000 feet 



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