Mountain Misery. 



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FIG. I. MOUNTAIN MISERY. 



a. Characteristic flowering branchlet. b. Single leaf, showing its tripinnate charac- 

 ter and its numerous leaflets. 



their faces towards the high mountains ; and a whiff of its dis- 

 tinctive odor calls up the glamour of past days on the trails 

 and ridges. 



Chamcehatia foliolosa is confined to the western slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada, between 3,000 and 6,000 feet, from the Tule 

 River north to Nevada County. It does not occur on the 

 eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, where it is replaced by 

 another plant of the same family {Rosacew) — namely, the 

 Desert Spiraea, Chamcchatiaria millefolium. The two plants have 

 marked similarity in their foliage, but ChamcBhatiaria mille- 

 folium is a rigid, erect bush with reddish bark and flowers in 



