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Cotyledon of Multiflores Canyon.
"'Ave, atque vale!' Cotyledon!" Linda slid down the side of the canyon with the deftness of the expert.
At the first available crevice she thrust in her Alpine stick, and bracing herself, gained a footing.

Then she turned and by use of her fingers and toes worked her way back to the plan, she had passed.

She was familiar with many members of she family, but such a fine specimen she seldom had found and she could not recall having seen it in all of her botanies.

Opposite the plant she worked out a footing, drove her stick deep at the base of a rock to brace herself, and from the knapsack on her back took a sketchbook and pencil and began rapidly copying the thick fleshy leaves of the flattened rosette, sitting securely at the edge of a rock.