. A year of Costa Rican natural history. fxa f^. To jlue p. 137 THE VOLCANO IRAZU 137 places great quantities of an exceedingly pretty little lupine(possibly Lupinus aschenhornii) with dark blue flowers anda compound leaf compressed into a rosette of leaflets. Theyounger leaves are quite reddish and having a velvety pilethey gather and hold the mist so that they frequently lookas if strewn with jewels, a pretty sight when the sun shineson them. The plant is a compact little hemisphere about afoot across, with a single thick taproot bearing numerousnodules. We saw also a few blossoms of a yello
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. fxa f^. To jlue p. 137 THE VOLCANO IRAZU 137 places great quantities of an exceedingly pretty little lupine(possibly Lupinus aschenhornii) with dark blue flowers anda compound leaf compressed into a rosette of leaflets. Theyounger leaves are quite reddish and having a velvety pilethey gather and hold the mist so that they frequently lookas if strewn with jewels, a pretty sight when the sun shineson them. The plant is a compact little hemisphere about afoot across, with a single thick taproot bearing numerousnodules. We saw also a few blossoms of a yellow Hyper-icum; it was mentioned by Oersted as resembling H. brathySyhaving brilliant yellow flowers, and as being often coveredwith black fungus {Scorias rohinsoni). On some of the slopes of the lesser craters, in little pocketsmore or less protected from the wind, we found veritableflower gardens containing the handsome Bromeliad alreadymentioned, ferns {Elaphoglossum lingua, E. revolutum, Poly-podium moniliforme), thickets of Pernettya coriace
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