MONTANA BOTANY NOTES 



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,,,„'BL'":MlcDriLrr„;rD;'„aM"eaKl'Bu„'l,,a„^ an. W„a Horse I,- 



land Alta, Upper Marias Pass, Sperry Glacier. 



at I'tr Y.ltof S W„d H„;se iLnd. Bui. Island, St, Ignatius Mission, 



-o;i';o.'L^r:.:L';o.^p;::;n';^s%^r H.«t:ie^rB..o., .enow Ba. 



•'■'o"t°"un.''o.San"L"('X','?'l"H, Sobers, Bl.IorK, Vellow Bay, 

 ■Rnvilli Evaro McDonald Lake, Mission Mts. 



Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC St. Ignatius Mission, McDonald peak. 

 Kvvin T^ke Missoula, Alta, Sperry Glacier, Gunsight Lake. 



HLb^naria ieucostachys (Lindl.) Wat. Alta. Common in the Sperry Gla- 



''' Hab^'aria obtusata (Pursh) Rich. Foot of MacDougal peak. Mrs. Clem- 



^"^;, ■ • + ., mnutri ^ A A Eaton, Epipactis gigantea, Dougl. 



S.lnZt'e ?;^rncrs^?:hi^Ld^Je«--s''cahim Fi^st found by Miss Norton. 

 ?he wnfer doubts the wisdom of referring this to the genus Serap.as. 



Sniranthes Romanzoffiana Cham., Gyrostachys stncta R>dberg. Mac 

 Dougal pea" Bigfork, Yellow Bay, Wild Horse Island, Bull Island, McDon- 



"^fsTelJa c;Vtr(KrK/Br!'KrpHropHy,la Rydber. McDonald Lake 



""^ U:Lr:onva..arioides (Swartz) Torr. Bigfork, ^-an Lake. MacDoug^^^ 

 and McDonald peaks. Yellow Bay, from Lake McDonald to St. Mar, s Lake 

 in the Sperry Glacier region. 



Salix Babyionica (L.) This grows in graveyards. 

 Salix cordata Muhl. Common at low elevations in all localities. 

 Salix Novae-Angliae And. Lima. -croii«,r 



Salix Novae-Angliae Var. pseudocordata And. Alta, Lambert Valley, 

 Blackfoot Glacier and Sperry Glacier. 



Salix monticola Bebb. Evaro, Alta, Browning. 



la X Scouleriana Barratt. Common all around Flathead^LaKC nearly 

 to the upper edge of the Qpper Temperate life zone, Columbia Falls. 

 Salix glaucops var. glabrescens And. MacDougal peak. 



Salix Tweedyi (Bebb) Jones. This is reported from Flathead Pass 

 (Upper MaHas)'by Blankenship, but diligent search there fails to reveal it 

 thr.iifrh thp following is common there. „ , ^, • 



SaMx Barclay" And. Upper Marias Pass and Sperry to Blackfoot Glacier 

 especia^U on the Atlantic slope. It is a curious fact that willows are rela- 

 tively scarce on the Pacific slope but the moment we get on the other 

 llope thev form the chief mountain vegetation forming almost impenetrable, 

 thickets even though the humidity is less than on the west. 



Salix Barrattiana Hook Specimens gotten by Williams at Columbia 

 Falls on the high peaks seem to belong here. 

 Salix chlorophylla And. Gunslght Lake. 



^ ^SaSt'- S:':::IJ:^:: Ry-erg. This very jar^e win.^ 

 abounds on MacDougal to McDonald peaks, ^1- throughout the Spery Gla- 

 cier re^i.m. Monida, Lambert Valley. Ours are the var. n^^^Us mostl>_ 



silix Fernaldi Blankenship. Blankenship seems to be right in making a 

 epecie Of the wLfern forms' of S. vestita. It is characterized by the ovate 

 ;ods being 2 to 3 mm long only, and the leaves not refuse but rounded at 

 UP The other characters given amount to nothing, particularly the pub- 

 escence and reticulation of the leaves. Young leaves sometimes show little 



