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Show A Snow Plant from the Sierra. One of the rarest plants known to botanists bot-anists has been brought to this city by E. L. Swartz and is 011 exhibition in the windows of a down town florist. It is known as the snow plant and was found by Mr. Swartz growing near snowbanks in the Sierras, 6,500 feet above tho sen level. The plant is indigenous to high and frozen altitudes and is a curiosity. It grows to the height of four or five inches, and when it blooms, which is soon after the spring thaw, it bears the appearance of a dark reddish pine cone set upright on the ground. It emits an odor that is not unlike that of the honeysuckle. honey-suckle. The value attached to it is on account of its rarity, and the plant secured se-cured by Mr. Swartz is douotless the first ever brought to this city. San Francisco Exarimer. |