Their feeding-grounds are among the most beautiful of the wild gardens, bright with daisies and gentians and mats of purple bryanthus, lying hidden away on rocky headlands and cañon sides, where sunshine is abundant, or down in the shady glacier valleys, along the banks of the streams and lakes, where the plushy sod is greenest.

The cañon walls became more rugged and bare, and gentians and arctic daisies became more abundant in the gardens and strips of meadow along the streams.

Pines raise statelier shafts and give themselves room to grow,gentians, shinleaf, and little grass of Parnassus in their golden checkered shadows; the meadow is white with violets and all outdoors keeps the clock.

We now bore along to the left, finding several large gentians, and gradually, by dint of short cuts, we reached the Croix de Mansea plateau where four roads meet.

Partly riding and partly walking, the rest of the descent was successfully accomplished, including the gathering of gentians, bee orchids, mountain violets, and both Polygalae; [Footnote: Polygala rosea and P. amara.] while Mr. Sydney triumphed in the very laudable effort of showing the lazy guide how things could be managed, by arriving at the foot of the mountain some twenty minutes before him.

Box plants, with their bright leaves here and there changing into a rich red, lined the way, and many flowers, including gentians, added their charm.

The neighbourhood is very rich in flora, small jonquils, daffodils, oxslips, hyacinths, violets, polygala, potentilla, anemones, Ramondia pyrenaïca, Primula farinosa, large and small gentians, linaria, and bee orchids being among the easiest to find.

Starting again, we commenced the zigzag ascent past the churchthe road winding among fields golden with daffodils, mingling here and there with the lovely blue of the gentians and the pink Primula farinosatowards the base of the Coumelie, the mule-path to the Cirque de Troumouse leading through a field above us, as we reached the zigzag's top.

After an enjoyable kettledrum, the tea being our own and made under personal supervision, Miss Blunt perched herself on a hillock to sketch, and Mr. Sydney explored the neighbourhood for flowers, of which gentians were the principal object of his search.

After this the good broad carriage-road soon came to an end, and the easy gradient changed to a steep path among a grove of nothing but beeches, which emerged later on the slope of a somewhat bare and stony hill dotted with a few gentians.

Alternate clouds and sunshine overhead, the lights and shadows over the trees, the fieldsradiant with gentians, oxslips, columbine, polygaloe, and asphodellosing none of their charm.

Purple asters and golden-rod waved on the roadsides and in the fields; and blue gentians, for which Penfield was famous, were blooming everywhere.

She gathered great sheaves of ferns and blue gentians and asters, until the Parson implored her to "leave a few just for the poor sun to shine on."

Josephine looked across the little sea of her favourite blue gentians and smiled at her husband.

Some of my own best Ski-ing days have been late in March when the crocuses and gentians were already opening to the sun on the Southern slopes, and a soldanella might be found along some tiny stream.

On the lower slopes, gentians or anemone plants with their buds waiting to open when the soft wind or rain of Spring calls to them.

The soldanellas do the same, but not till late in March, and with them come gentians and the whole glory of the Alpine Spring has begun.

By the time they brought in the first gentians Rose had drifted off after her little son.

The gentians were not yet open, and he thought how they would look in a few hoursbluer than the mid-day sky.

Cold is the true saint's elementhe thrives Like Alpine gentians, where the frost is keenest For there Heaven's nearestand the ether purest [Aside] And he most bitter.

Crimson-flowered moss and bright blue gentians covered the rocks, and I filled my books with blossoms for friends at home.

We climbed the Saleve, and I saw what gave me more pleasure, I confess, than the distant view of Mont Blanc, which he expected me to be enthusiastic over,the soldanella and gentians.

All the Gentians need plenty of free air, and some of them moisture at the roots.

The rose will redden in the bog, The aster on the hill Her everlasting fashion set, And covenant gentians frill, Till summer folds her miracle As women do their gown, Or priests adjust the symbols When sacrament is done.

The rose will redden in the bog, The aster on the hill Her everlasting fashion set, And covenant gentians frill, Till summer folds her miracle As women do their gown, Or priests adjust the symbols When sacrament is done.