A Pretty Gentian 
The Fringed Gentian is one of the pret¬ 
tiest of autumn flowers. Bryant wrote a 
beautiful poem about it. 
This is not the Fringed Gentian, but 
it looks very much like it. 
The flower is blue and slightly fringed. 
It is trumpet-shaped. It blooms about 
the last of August and the first of Sep¬ 
tember. 
We gathered these blossoms on Mount 
Rainier at the edge of the snow fields. 
No. 43. 
