Our national parks . rea,senecio, erigeron, matrecaria, caltha, Valeriana,stellaria, Tofieldia, polygonum, papaver, phlox,lychnis, cheiranthus, Linnaea, and a host of dra-bas, saxifrages, and heath worts, with bright starsand bells in glorious profusion, particularly Cassi-ope, Andromeda, ledum, pyrola, and vaccinium, — Cassiope the most abundant and beautiful ofthem all. Many grasses also grow here, andwave fine purple spikes and panicles over theother flowers, — poa, aira, calamagrostis, alope-curus, trisetum, elymus, festuca, glyceria, ferns are found thus far north, carefullyand c
Our national parks . rea,senecio, erigeron, matrecaria, caltha, Valeriana,stellaria, Tofieldia, polygonum, papaver, phlox,lychnis, cheiranthus, Linnaea, and a host of dra-bas, saxifrages, and heath worts, with bright starsand bells in glorious profusion, particularly Cassi-ope, Andromeda, ledum, pyrola, and vaccinium, — Cassiope the most abundant and beautiful ofthem all. Many grasses also grow here, andwave fine purple spikes and panicles over theother flowers, — poa, aira, calamagrostis, alope-curus, trisetum, elymus, festuca, glyceria, ferns are found thus far north, carefullyand comfortably unrolling their precious fronds, — aspidium, cystopteris, and woodsia, all grow-ing on a sumptuous bed of mosses and lichens;not the scaly lichens seen on rails and trees andfallen logs to the southward, but massive, round-headed, finely colored plants Hke corals, wonder-fully beautiful, worth going round the world tosee. I should Hke to mention all the plantfriends I found in a summers wanderings in. CASSIOPE WILD PARKS OF THE WEST 9 this cool reserve, but I fear few would care toread their names, although everybody, I am sure,would love them could they see them bloomingand rejoicing at home. On my last visit to the region about KotzebueSound, near the middle of September, 1881, theweather was so fine and mellow that it suggestedthe Indian summer of the Eastern States. Thewinds were hushed, the tundra glowed in creamygolden sunshine, and the colors of the ripe foli-age of the heathworts, willows, and birch — red,purple, and yellow, in pure bright tones — wereenriched with those of berries which were scat-tered everywhere, as if they had been showeredfrom the clouds like hail. When I was back amile or two from the shore, reveling in this color-glory, and thinking how fine it would be could Icut a square of the tundra sod of conventionalpicture size, frame it, and hang it among thepaintings on my study walls at home, saying tomyself, Such a Nature painting t
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