Alpine Primrose.

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Happy Heart coming home from the far, far hills,
How the primrose flamed in the arctic chills!
And you heard the flutes of the summit birds:
You will keep forever their sky-lost words,
Happy Heart coming home from the hills.

Transcriber's Note

The handwritten image captions were, in some cases, very difficult to make out. Following are transcriptions, with [notes] where there was any doubt about content.

Colorado Columbine (½ actual size)
Aquilegia coerulea
Cather Springs, June 27

Small-leaved Saxifrage (? actual size)
Saxifraga parvifolia
Pikes Peak, Aug. 15. 9300 ft. Altitude

Alpine Forget-me-not (natural size)
Mertensia alpina
Pikes Peak, 12,500 ft. altitude

Indian Paint Brush (natural size)
[rest of caption unreadable, possibly Castilleja pruinosa]

Arctic Gentian (natural size)
[unreadable]
Pikes Peak

Alpine Primrose
[rest of caption unreadable]





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