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Summit Meadow to
Fine view this morning of Mt. Brewer, Cross Mt. Mt Gardner & Mt. King (a very sharp point on main crest of Sierras) and the High Sierras. No. 771. Mimulus l.c. Tilingi Regel var. corallinus (Greene) Grant Det. A.L.G. Average specimens but often twice as high
--Note on Pedicularis attollens no. 729 Lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes turned downward and the upper lip retrocurved over it. (Fine example of retrocurved!) Upper lip involute so as to form a slender tube enclosing the style, at base enlarged and
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King's River Canon, July 6, 1900.
hood-like, covering the short stamens. Flowers reddish pink. The long "beak" of the upper lip and its curving is suggestive, a trifle of "Blue Curls." Calyx merely and about equally 5-toothed. Grows in wet mdws. (Long Mdw to Summit Mdw.).
Five Mile Hill Sugar Pine - bark of trunk extremely reddish brown and often deeply fissured into rather thin (vertically) longitudinal plates. Cones typical Sugar Pine Cones but the trunks are in some cases smoothish reddish and not distinguishable from Yellow Pine trunks.
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