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Show 1 Where Snow Is Keil. Snow is sometimes found in polar and Alpine regions, where it lies nnmelted from year to year and the annual fall is small, colored red by the presence of innumerable small red plants. In its native state the plant consists of brilliant bril-liant red globules on a gelatinous mass. Red snow was observed by the ancients, a passage in Aristotle referring to it, but it attracted little or no attention until 1760, when Sanssure observed it in the Alps and concluded that it was due to the pollen of a plant. It was also noticed by the arctic expedition under Captain Roes on Baffin's bay shore on a range of cliffs, the red color penetrating pene-trating to a depth of 12 feet. Less frequent fre-quent is a green growth on snow. Ladies La-dies Home Journal. |