id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 33443 Muir, John Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881: Botanical Notes Notes and Memoranda: Medical and Anthropological; Botanical; Ornithological. .txt text/plain 4047 371 72 Arctic Ocean and the Alaska region, made by Mr. John Muir; notes upon The plants named in the following notes were collected at many There is no line of perpetual snow on any portion of the arctic regions flower, also an arctostaphylos and draba, on a slope facing the south, of October we saw about fifty species of flowering plants--empetrum, vaccinium, bryanthus, pyrola, arctostaphylos, ledum, cassiope, lupinus, mosses similar to that which cover the tundras of the Arctic regions, making a rich green mantle on which the showy flowering plants are seen reaches a height of nearly six feet, and forms a growth close _Papaver nudicaule_, _Draba alpina_, and _Silene Cassiope, and several species of Vaccinium and Saxifraga. frigidus, Gray, var. Carex vulgaris, Willd, var. Armeria vulgaris, Willd, var. slopes there are valleys where the showiest of the Arctic plants bloom seen in the Arctic regions. Artemisia borealis, Willd. ./cache/33443.txt ./txt/33443.txt