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NATIDE PLANTS. 
FROM THE 
HIGH PLAINS, BADLANDS 
AND BLACK HILLS 
1942 

LEWISIA REDIVIVA, GREAT PLAINS NATIVE 
The glorious blossoms here pictured were photo- 
grayvhed “in the wild,” on the northeastern Wyoming 
plains, in mid-June, flowering just well begun. Their 
color, rich carmine rose pink. Leaves at that date 
had practically disappeared and there remained the 
clustered buds in their papery wrappings and those 
unsurpassed blossoms, two to nearly three inches 
wide, coming directly from the ground. 
Strangely, this plant of outstanding beauty and 
mysterious habits, long known in the Rockies and 
westward, has escaped the botanical recorders in 
its plains reaches. Plants of this stock are now 
offered, Doubtless they have some special adapta- 
tion, to be proven by further observation. Meantime 
we may accept the usual recommendation to grow 
them in a well drained medium in sun. 
CLAUDE A. BARR 
PRAIRIE GEM RANCH 
Smithwick, South Dakota 
