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(7 e). They often attain a greater height than the specimens here shown. Larger 

 and smaller groups of different kinds of grasses are generally associated with them, 

 imparting quite a picturesque appearance to the tops of old trunks of trees. 

 Amongst the smaller plants of the foreground, the beautiful Dracontium 



Kamtschaticum ought to be noticed ^4 | 5 jQ . It is rather common in the lower 



forest districts, and grows in the manner here represented in the different valleys 

 between old remnants of fallen trees, localities in the neighbourhood of which 

 there is generally more humidity. Such spots produce a great variety, often tall 

 ferns (4 f), fine Carices (5 g), and numbers of Cornus Canadensis, in full bloom 

 about this time (9 p). Mosses and lichens are, as might be expected, so plentiful, 

 that they exercise a considerable influence on the colouring of a picture. There 

 is no lack of herbaceous plants with fine flowers about this season, but few of them 

 are large enough to be recognised in my illustration. Three of them are, how- 

 ever, so characteristic, that they must be indicated at least in the extreme fore- 

 ground, — the fine scarlet Aquilegia Canadensis, the Mimulus guttatus here 

 reaching up to your middle, and the dark Sarannah lily {Lilium Kamtschaticum 

 = Fritillaria Sarannah), renowned for its fine-flavoured bulbs, forming an im- 

 portant article of food in the Aleutian islands and in Kamtschatka. 



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