86 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



that no lily could ever hope to excel. It truly is a plant that 

 one could never forget, after seeing it in its native habitat. 

 The shore lupine resembles the other lupines, but it lies pros- 

 trate in the dunes. The sea-rocket {Cakile cdcntiila) was 

 noticeable chiefly on account of its peculiar shaped pods. The 

 pink flowers are rather inconspicuous. 



The grasses along the coast are very interesting. From 

 afar, the tall spikes of the beach rye-grass {Blymus arenarius) 

 stood out from the damp places along the edges of the cliffs, 

 reminding one of cat-tails. The spikes however were too 

 ripe to make good specimens. I found Aira praccox, or hair 

 grass, growing nearly everywhere in the open. Calamagrostis 

 aleutica, a truly magnificent grass with large gleaming panicles, 

 grew in the ravines. Its relative, C. Faeyi, a smaller plant 

 with copper-colored inflorenscence, I found on Yaquina Head. 

 The most common of the grasses in the dunes was Poa iiia- 

 crantha. When T saw it, the whole plant was about the color 

 of the sand, for the spikelets had ripened. 



One day 1 found a number of the plants of llie thrift 

 (Statice armeria) on a narrow ledge overlooking the ocean. 

 Although the leaves and stems were withered, the paper like 

 flowers were still pink. A little distance below, the cormor- 

 ants were nesting in little rocky cavities of the steep side of 

 the cliff. In some of the nests there were eggs and in others 

 the newly hatched young. 



My second camp was made in a canyon, througli which 

 a stream of ice cold water ran out among a thick mass of 

 Eqiiisctiiiu. I called this camp, Camp Glehnia, in honor of 

 Cilchnia littoralis, which grew so abundantly there. P)efore T 

 left, the canvon was aglow with the tall racemes of the fire- 

 weed. 



The>e. then, are the flowers which 1 now remember, 

 without takiniT <'Ut mv note books, and from wliich I drew a 



