FIRST SERIES. ALPINE PLANTS. 
Some Notes on the Plants 
OF WHICH 
PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR IN 
THE PRECEDING PAGES • • 
BY 
SOMERVILLE HASTINGS. 
struck by the singular beauty of » , , , land meadows 
before the hay is cut the whole :» > ’ lr > ro,n { he abundance of the 
,o the snow line itself is f 1“' c ‘ lo r makes the Alpine flora so 
flowers, as wel as thclr ^ r 8. must be remembered that though so 
striking. At the same tune ' 1 { ”* r "" , he plants which bear 
numerous neither the flower lowland relatives. Indeed, in 
th T tWrVX«^c~“ flowers* the plants growing at 
S h^er1uUud r esar K e' general stunted and dwarfed 
Many of the peculiarities ofAlprne , pi ««•»«" £ ofV* 
the conditions under which the> li a n activity in the Alpine 
year, owing to the white coverlet ^XTi’on of flowers and seeds, 
plant world ceases, so that P. , must be crowded into 
indeed all the vital processes of Alpine plants, must ue and 
the few months when the . d ot i ie r plants are found 
Snowbells (Pages *«, 3«. “hat everything must be 
blooming at the very edge • directly the snow melts. I 1 or 
ready for immediate flower P^^^&e,,, is essential, and 
this to take place a reserve * f urn ished with thick underground 
accordingly Alpine plants ar , * can be stored. It is also 
stems or fleshy roots whe ■ ‘ „.u; c h go through their life 
noteworthy -hat the number of in the Alps 
cycle in a single year ( | * h t ^-, is perhaps to be found in 
comparatively small. 1 he r _ . interfering with the ripening 
the fact that a single “; t h extinction an entire species. 
*“ ;h *' » 
rapid production of flowers and seeds. a fule 
As has been pr e * ious }> d gemtU-e part* of the plant being 
short-stemmed and dwarfed, the re f th of leaves. This is also pro- 
often merely represented by . b brig ) u sunlight by day 
bably the result of «te effect on the growth of 
and intense cold at night b»vtng d f ; ht is S een in the long 
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