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The Round -leaved Saxifrage (Page 30) will be readily identified 
if its long-stalked leaves and white petals, which are spotted with 
red and yellow, be remembered. It is common in damp shady 
places. 
The pretty little Alpine Aster is well illustrated on page 31. 
The flowers are violet-purple with yellow centres, and each plant 
bears but a single flower head on a long stalk. Two species of 
Plea bane (Erigerott) resemble the Alpine Aster rather closely, but 
no mistake will arise if it be remembered that the purple ray florets 
are arranged in several rows in Erigeron, but in a single row in 
Aster. 
The Alpine Daisy (Page 32) is the Alpine representative of the 
Common Daisy (Beliis ferennis ) which it closely resembles. But 
the flowers, though similar in colour, are larger, and the leaves are 
more elongated and have coarser notches along the edges. It is 
common in moist rocky places and mountain pastures. 
The Dwarf Cudweed (Page 33) is a stumpy little plant, bear- 
ing usually but a single flower head at the top of a short stem. The 
plant grows in tufts, and comes up directly the snow melts. It is 
much appreciated by sheep. 
The Northern Cudweed (Page 34), like the Dwarf Cudweed, 
has its leaves covered by a whitish felt. It is closely related to the 
Wood Cudweed (Gnafihaliuni silvaticum), but has broader leaves, 
with three veins. In the Wood Cudweed the leaves are practically 
all of the same length, but in the Northern Cudweed the leaves 
situated half-way up the stem are longer than those above and 
below. 
The Edelweiss (Page 35) is probably the best known of Alpine 
plants. It is certainly weird and beautiful. The flower heads are 
surrounded by long bracts covered by white felt-like hairs which 
give rise to the characteristic appearance of the plant. While it is 
found right up to the snow line, the Edelweiss seems to prefer rich 
Alpine meadows. In Northern Switzerland it is rarely met with, 
but is sometimes cultivated by the guides and then transplanted to 
the mountains to be re-discovered a few weeks later when the guide 
has a party with him. South of the Rhone Valley it is much more 
common and can be picked in armfuls in some of the Alpine pastures. 
Woolly plants like the Edelweiss are much more characteristic of 
dry steppes than of high mountains, and the Edelweiss itself is 
common in the steppes of Siberia, but absent in Arctic regions. 
The Carpathian Cudweed (Page 36) is closely related to the 
Catsfoot or Mountain Everlasting photographed on page 31 of the 
First Series, and closely resembles it. But the Carpathian Cudweed 
has brown, not pink or white, flower heads, and never sends out 
runners as the Mountain Everlasting does. 
The Alpine Ox-Eye (Page 37) is a kind of dwaifed Alpine form 
of the common Ox-eye Daisy. The flower-head is white, with a con- 
cave yellow centre, and the short flower-stalk, which is unbranched, 
is usually devoid of leaves. The leaves at the base of the stem are 
finely divided. The plant is common in the high Alps and widely 
distributed. It is interesting to note how many lowland plants have 
