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into linear divisions. This plant was formerly seen along the trail 
to the summit. The writer failed to see a single plant last summer 
along that route. It doubtless makes too good a souvenir to be let 
alone. Polemonium elegans may be known by its strong odor, 
alternate pinnately parted viscid leaves, and cymulose cluster of 
blue flowers with yellow centers. A small aster, Erigeron composi- 
tum, having pinkish flower and dissected leaves, grows here. Hulsea 
nana , another composite plant, may be known by its large yellow 
flowers, 2 to 6 inches high, with sticky pinnatifid leaves, mostly 
radical, from a long branching rootstock. This plant also is now 
Fig. 38.—Lyall’s lupine (Lupinus lyallii). 
Color of flower, bluish purple; height of plant, 2 to 7 inches; blooms July and August. 
Photograph by A. H. Denman. 
rare along the trail to the summit. It is not likely that the tourist 
would carry this plant after its viscid quality was discovered, though 
its large golden yellow flowers would tempt the flower destroyer 
to pluck it. 
Draba aureola, a yellow mustard, grows rather sparingly on the 
rocky ledges at Camp Muir and at similar altitudes around the 
mountain. Its lower leaves are oblanceolate, usually less than half 
an inch long, and the upper are oblong. It is densely pubescent all 
over, even the oblong seed pods being covered with fine stellate 
hairs. Smelowskia ovalis is another hardy plant which belongs to the 
