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172 Pale yellow Adder's Tongues (Erythronium giganteum) grow in great profusion in the alpine meadows, together with Indian Paint Brushes and Bright Painted-cups (Castelleia scplentrionalis, C. miniata, C. Bradburii) of every hue—scarlet, carmine, orange, yellow and white—Wood Betony (Pedicularis bracteosa) and Queen-cups (Clintonia unifiora).

Among the other conspicuous plants are the Everlastings (Antennaria racemosa, A. Lanata), St. John's Wort (Hypericum Scouleri), blue and yellow Violets (Viola cognata, B. glabella), Yellow Willow-herb (Epilobium luieum), Creeping Raspberry (Rubus pedatus), Green Orchis (Habenaria bracteata, H. obtusata, H. hyperborea), Long-beaked Pedicularis (Pedicularis Jroenlandica), Cow-parsnip (Heracleum lanatum). Western Anemone (Anemone occidentalis), Alpine Anemone (Anemone Drummondii), and those two natives of many lands, the Northern Twin Flower (Linriaea borealis) and the Yarrow (Achillea lanulosa).

Big blue spikes of Phacelia (Phacilia sericea) and Mountain Larkspur (Dephinium Brownii), mark the path of the sun across many an upland garden when Nature has sown with a lavish hand bronze-tasselled Thalictrums, white and yellow Marsh Marigolds (Caltha leptosepala, C. palustris), primrose colored Columbines (Acquilegia flavescens), Potentillas, whose names are legion, and among which Potentilla dissicta is the most conspicuous, Gold-rods of which Solidago multiradiata var. Scopulorum is the most prolific. Ragworts (Senccio), Coltsfoots (Petasiies), Hawkweeds (Hieracium), Hawksbeards (Crepis) and the pink-petalled Arctic Raspberry (Rubus arcticus); while to wander over an alpine field of Asters (Aster Fremonti, A. Engelmanni) and Flea-banes (Erigeron salsuginosus, E. Acris) is to tread upon a carpet close woven of purple and gold.

Other plants there are which flourish in the Selkirk Range less conspicuous than the foregoing, yet each in its own way very lovely, such as the Arabis, Arenaria, Draba, Stellaria, Cerastium, Trienlalis, Artemisia, Dicentra, Brassica, and many more which it is impossible even to catalogue here." Julia W. Henshaw.