88 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



bazaars. The little sugar pine {Piims monticola) strug- 

 gles through a depauperate existence at last ch'ing when 

 it is fifteen or twenty feet high, or else it is overturned be- 

 cause its roots cannot take hold of the cold, wet, claj'cy 

 soil, but the thimble cone pine {Piims contorta) is able to 

 do fairly well so it spreads over the floor-like level of the 

 logs, serving as a protection to the golden moss {Hypnum 

 schroderi) and support for thousands of lichens, being 

 grotesquely festooned with Usnea barb at a, which may run 

 into a reticulated variety of lace-like beauty. 



The floor of the bog is covered with sphagnum (Sp?) 

 in very beautiful shades of brown, red, and green, and the 

 usual ericaceous plants such as. Ledum groenlandicurn, 

 and L. glandulosum, the first of which is often called 

 Labrador tea. These bogs are often referred to as cran- 

 berry marshes on account of the abundance of the wild 

 cranberry {Oxycoccus palustris) which grows in profusion 

 and whose fruit is eagerly sought to make a sauce for the 

 annual Thanksgiving turkey. These plants make a beau- 

 tiful mosaic and give the bogs the appearance of a car- 

 peted park, around which stand the grim sentinels of 

 centuries. Growing in and among the sphagnum is found 

 that peculiar insect catcher, the sun-dew {Drosera rotund- 

 i folia) battening on the millions of midges — yes, we caught 

 him with a gnat in three or four of his hands ! The cari- 

 ces struggle with the huckleberries {Vaccinum parvifolium 

 and V. vitis-Idcea) for the spaces in the surrounding forest 

 where the fallen logs were settled upon by the salal {Gaul- 

 theria shalon) and feather moss (Hylocomium spkndens) 

 with many other interesting species of moss and hardy 

 ferns, making an almost impenetrable rampart ; but the 

 many broken limbs indicated that bruin had made many 

 a feast on the luscious Ijcrries, and that where beast luis 

 gone man may follow. 



Hamilton, Wash. 



