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has perhaps the wider distribution of the two, and possesses 

 additionally a more brittle stem. Such a condition, when 

 coupled with high regenerative power, may well serve the 

 plant, for following attacks of aquatic animals, fragments 

 great and small would be more easily transported by the water 

 and thus account for the greater distribution. Thus these 

 properties could be of use to the plant although the habitat of 

 Ceratophylhun — slow streams and ponds — is such as would 

 preclude the probability of any constant physical strain making 

 such properties useful. 



Washington and Jefferson College, 

 Washington, Pa. 



WILDFLOWERS OF THE OREGON COAST 

 By R. V. Bradshaw 



During the summer of 1919, I spent the month of July 

 camping along the Oregon Coast. From Eugene to Corvallis 

 and bevond, the most prominent wild flower was the herald 

 of summer {Godetia amoena) which grew in dense masses 

 along the roadsides. In the mountains, near the coast, the 

 foxglove {Digitalis pnrpiiyca) was abundant. Above New- 

 ])ort. I made a shelter from the branches of the Douglas fir 

 and lodge-pole pine, both of wliicli were found on the hills 

 extending back from the cliffs. 



On the cliffs a tangled mass of slnmbs made walking 

 extremely difficult, save in paths which had already been made. 

 The salad (Gaulthcria Slialloii) was the most common of 

 these. Nowhere have I seen such large salal berries as those 

 coast representatives bore. The evergreen huckleberry, ( Vac- 

 cijiiiiiii (rvatiiiii) was intermingled with the salal; however the 



