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Updated: May 20, 2025
The crater of the Peak has so little depth, and the air is renewed with so much facility, that it is scarcely probable the quantity of azote is greater there than on the coasts. We saw on the summit of the Peak no trace of psora, lecidea, or other cryptogamous plants; no insect fluttered in the air.
A pink-coloured woolly saussurea and Delphinium glaciale are two of the most lofty plants, and are commonly found from 17,500 feet to 18,000 feet. Besides some barren mosses several lichens grow on the top, as Cladonia vermicularis, the yellow Lecidea geographica and the orange L. miniata.
One flowering plant ascends to the summit; the alsinaceous one mentioned at chapter xxi. The other lichens were Lecidea atro-alba, oreina, elegans, and chlorophana, all alpine European and Arctic species.
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