EOUND TRIP BETWEEN IOWA AND PUGET SOUND. 



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Figure 34. Portions of Puget Sound and islands, from Friday Harbor, 

 Washington. Mount Constitution, on Orcas Island, the highest 

 point explored, shows dimly in the extreme left background. 



A ROUXD TRIP BETWEEIST IOWA K^T) PUGET 



SOUIv^D. 



11. IN PUGET SOUND. 

 ]5y Pkofessob Bruce Fink. 



As stated in the preceding paper of this series (this maga- 

 zine for March, 1907), wliat follows in this presentation is based 

 upon observations made in a more leisurely way. However, this 

 does not make the task of deciding what to write about easier; 

 for after one has studied the flora of a limited area, even for so 

 short a period as six weeks, it is difficult to crowd a general state- 

 ment into the limits of one short paper. Though another writer 

 would certainly not select all of the plants considered below for 

 a popular discussion, all botanists Avould agree to include the 

 majority of them, and they will serve to give a glimpse of tlie 

 vegetation of the San Juan archipelago, in Puget Sound. 



It was through the kindness of Dr. T. C. Frye, professor of 

 Botanv in the ITniversitv of Washinii'ton, that tlie writer was in- 



