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Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland

CHAPTER IX
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The learned in such matters call these rock-fallows _Karrenfelden_.

When we had crossed this plateau, and came to grass, we found a gorgeous carpet of the huge couched blue gentian (_G.

acaulis_, Fr.

_Gentiane sans tige_), with smaller patterns put in by the dazzling blue of the delicate little flower of the same species (_G.

verna_ ); while the white blossoms of the grass of Parnassus, and the frailer white of the _dryade a huit petales_, and the modest waxen flowers of the _Azalea procumbens_ and the _airelle ponctuee_ (_Vaccineum vitis idaea_), tempered and set off the prevailing blue.


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