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FLOEA OF MOUNT EAINIEE NATIONAL PAEK. 
red or purplish, red color and radiate clusters. These red clusters 
appear in well-balanced groups throughout these extensive flower 
beds, harmonizing with the blue, the white, and the yellow of other 
plants. Painted cup is another popular name for it. These com¬ 
mon names are applied to any species of Castilleia in this vicinity. 
The red heather forms dense patches with its long shrubby stems 
usually leaning over to one side with its red bell-shape flowers. 
Along the numerous streams may be found Lewis’s monkey flower 
(fig. 26) with its rose-red two-lipped corolla. Here, too, may be seen 
Fig. 21.—Western anemone in flower (Pulsatilla occidentalis). 
Color of flower, lavender; height of plant, 10 to 18 inches; blooms July and August. 
Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 
the rosy spiraea which continues up from the lower moist meadows. 
The spiraea and the monkey flower are always associated with 
moisture, while the Indian paint brush and red heather are not. 
These rills can often be traced in the distance by the bright rose-red 
flowers of Lems’s monkey flower and by the bright yellow of the 
alpine monkey flower, which loves the same habitat. Both species 
grow in dense masses and often cover the ground to the exclusion of 
other plants. The yellow fire weed, Epilobium luteum, flourishes best 
along the streams in the lower meadows. It may be known by its 
