DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate I. Map of Alaska, showing the approximate location of the grass-land 



areas in black. 

 Plate II. Fig. 1. — View of the level lands at the head of Womans Bay, Kadiak 



Island. Similar areas occur at the heads of most of the inlets. Fig. 2.— 



Mowing beach rye on the Frye-Bruhn ranch. 

 Plate III. Bluetop {CaJamugrostis lant/sdorfli) on Kadiak Island, 6 feet high, 



.July, 1904. The hillsides in the background were burned over during the 



preceding spring, and are covered with an equally luxuriant stand of the 



same grass. 

 Plate IV. Fig. 1. — A view of Kadiak, November 7, 1903. A light fall of new 



snow covers the low mountains in the background. Fig. 2. — Another view 



of Kadiak, starch 2(), 1904. The small snowfall of this region is made very 



clear by these two pictures. 



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