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found here than in any other one place on the conti- 
nent. One not a botanist going up in the summer 
will be delighted with the luxuriance and variety of 
colors assumed by the bee-balm, blood-red prevail- 
ing, although some of the springs and damp hollows 
are painted about with lavender, blush-rose, dark 
rose-red, pale honey-yellow or white bee-balm, and all 
of them, no matter what the color, are full of hum- 
ming-birds. The botanies have no idea how many 
colors this charming plant assumes on the open slopes 
of the Roan. From these slopes one gets fine views 
of the surrounding mountains, views sometimes 
framed in rose-bay bushes, when your imagination 
paints a glowing picture of the scene when the rose- 
bay is in bloom. 
Near the summit you notice the little houstonia, 
with plumy saxifrage and pink oxalis everywhere in 
the mosslike growths that cover the rocks, and you 
will also notice, although you may not know how 
rare it is, the large buttercup-like flower with a 
geranium leaf, the Geum grandiflorum. If it is sum- 
mer you will see the bright flowers of the lily named 
after Asa Gray, it having been first captured on the 
Roan, although it is abundant all through the 
mountains. And you will be sure to taste the little 
high-flavored strawberries hiding on the grassy 
ledges. 
There are a few spruce and fir trees, mountain 
ashes and alders scattered about near the top, but 
otherwise the Roan presents wide reaches of pasture 
land where flocks and herds are grazing, and where. 
