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in my work, I left him my press, driers and plenty of paper, ask- 
ing him to finish what I had barely begun. This he agreed to do, 
and from what I was told by the Lieutenant and by other members 
of the party, he kept his word well, and had gathered for me many 
plants which he knew I had not. By some untoward accident this 
bundle, carried with so much difficulty all through the mountains, 
miscarried somewhere on the way to Gray’s Harbor, to which place 
they went when taken upon the western coast. This is greatly to 
be regretted, for it must be that the most interesting flora and time 
of collecting came after I left the party, both on account of the 
mountains growing higher, the distance as they advanced being 
farther removed from salt water, and the snow disappearing from 
the slopes and leaving more of the ground uncovered. This un- 
fortunate circumstance may have been largely mended by the good 
collections made by Mr. Chas. V. Piper, who followed some weeks 
later along the route taken by the party, and reached a point much 
further inland than did I. If reports from his collections sent, 
when unknown, to the different authorities for identification, come 
_ back at about the same time that mine do, I shall incorporate the 
additional plants collected by him in this report. 
As yet a great deal is to be learned about the flora of these mount- 
ains, and when several such fine trails as were cut by our party are 
made into their hearts they will not long be a terra incognita. 
LIST OF PLANTS FROM THE CANAL TO THE SNOW LINE. 
Those seen by Charles V. Piper and not by me are followed by 
his name. Iam indebted to Messrs. Sereno Watson, George Vasey, 
L. H. Bailey, J. Cardot, O. F. Cook, H. Willey and Charles H. 
Peck for the identification of many species. Some were too frag- 
mentary, some of the grasses were too old, and some of the carices 
too young for exact identification, and all such are unnamed in 
whole or in part, or given with a question mark. The list enumer- 
_ ates nearly five hundred species: 
Thalictrum occidentale Gray. 
Anemone nemorosa L. Cymbalaria Pursh. 
Drummondii Wats. Caltha biflora DC. 
occidentalis Wats. (Piper.) Trollius laxus Salisb. (Piper.) 
Aquilegia formosa Fisch. 
Actwa spicata L., var. arguta Torr. 
Berberis nervosa Pursh. 
Ranunculus tenellus Nutt. 
Trautvetteria grandis Nutt. 
Ranunculus Eschscholtzii Schl. 
Flammula L., var. reptans Mey. 
