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sitifolia creep over other barren places, the latter a most curious 
plant with sharply ciliated leaves, which are curiously punctured 
at the top, as if with a conductor’s punch. 
Even the Hydrophyllaceous plant Romanzoffia Sitchensis takes 
on the characters of the Saxifrages so that it deceived the very 
elect, and was at first put in the family with them. 
Up and down the shore from Juneau are cafions, cut by the 
cold mountain streams, and to these we went for botanical speci- 
mens, learning to know the ill-traits of that pest of the prospec- 
tor, the Devil’s Club. 
Climbing over a slippery tree-trunk covered with moss is not 
an easy task, and there stands always at hand this instrument of 
Satan, which you instinctively grasp to your sorrow, for the 
spines find means to punish you. You slip, perhaps, off this 
same log that is helping you over a bog of deep, moist mosses, 
and the declined stem of the plant sinks with you and acts as 4 
lever to hit you in the face with the thickened end of the stem. 
It deserves its grotesque name of Fatsia horrida, yet it adds 
much to the beauty of the forest, with its thick, vine-like foliage, 
particularly in the fall, when, I am told, the leaves take on a soft 
yet brilliant orange-yellow color, giving to the otherwise sombre, 
evergreen shades an autumnal richness. ; 
At Salmon Creek, where we saw the beautiful fish for which 
it is named, attempt to scale the fall of fifteen feet, we found the 
Siberian Lily, rich orange with dark brown markings; had out 
first experience of exploring a forest with no trail, and found the 
Mertensia maritima on the beach, that four years ago | found at 
Mt. Desert, Me. Lysichiton Kamschatkensis takes the place of 
our Symplocarpus fetidus in the swamp; and Mimulus luteus, 
Claytonia Sibirica, Epilobium luteum and Impatiens fulva border 
the brooks, which are too cold to support life themselves, bes 
glacier or snow-fed all summer. 
South of Juneau, Sheep Creek leads up a rocky gor 
choked with the brilliant greens of the mosses, to the upper peo 
tures where the mountain sheep feed; here we found bears’ tracks 
in the salmonberry bushes, and rejoiced in the sight of blue ee 
ciers in the mountains. Here were Coptis asplenifolia and Trien- 
talis Europea and long reaches of scarlet Castilleia. 1 found — 
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