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by his care. Next I found the service-berry ( Amelanchier alnt- 
Folia) and the star-flower ( Trientalis Europea var. latifolia ). 
Passing from the hill into a ravine I was again surrprised by find- 
ing at so low an altitude the western white pine (Pinus monti- 
cola). This is a handsome tree, with its moderately long leaves 
and narrow worm-shaped cones. Its wood is soft and of a fine 
quality, but the scarcity of the trees forbids its ever becoming mar- 
ketable, or in any way rivaling its prototype, the white pine of the 
Michigan and Maine forests. Near at hand was the ‘‘sweet-herb”’ 
(Achlys triphylla), as good a thing to put in a ‘‘clothes press” or 
bureau to scent linen as anything that I know. 
In a dried lakelet, where I threw off my pack to rest, and the floor 
of which was thickly carpeted with the handsome moss Fontinalis 
Neo- Mexicana, 1 found the marsh violet ( Viola palustris ), in profu- 
sion, though now in fruit, the sweet two-leaved Solomon’s seal 
( Maianthemum bifolium var. dilitatum), and then a fern I had never 
seen growing in this country before, though common near Seattle— 
the moonwort (Bolrychium ternatum ), the hard-hack (Spirea 
Douglasii), and one of the handsomest, when not too old, of our 
sedges, Carex Sitchensis. Then came the pride of Hood’s Canal, 
as it is of many other places, the beautiful pink-flowered Rhodo- 
dendron (2. Californicum), still in flower though past its glorious 
prime. The firs then grew denser and higher, though the quality 
was still poor and the trees small. Here began to appear in great 
profusion mosses and lichens, only the most remarkable of which I 
shall mention here, or elsewhere in my narrative, as the description | 
of them would but tire the general reader, They will be found, 
where known, at the end ina general recapitulation. One of the 
most noticeable mosses of our country, and here abundant and un- 
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usually well-fruited, is Aypnum splendens, its frond-like sections — 
fern-like and reproducing themselves from near the top, year after 
year. Here also was another Pyrola (P. picta var. dentata), and 
high goat’s-beard, or arrowwood (,Spirea discolor vat. ariefolia), a 
beautiful bush when in flower, its cream-white small flowers hanging 
in clusters like the grape, while its straight, tough shoots form shafts 
for the arrows of the Indian, or tips for the rods of Isaag Walton’s 
disciples. Then appeared the peculiar “barber's pole’? (Allotropa — 
virgata), an Ericaceous plant, its white stems regularly striped with | 
winding bars of red up to and among its white or pinkish flowers, — 
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