Unreported plants from Glacier National Park 
PAuL W. GRAFF 
Our national parks are each season attracting a greater 
number of vacationists drawn to them by the beauties of nature, 
some only by the great attractions of mountain scenery but 
many by all the varying phases of nature to be enjoyed in these 
national playgrounds. To the person of botanical or zoological 
interests Glacier Park is one of the most attractive. Its high 
rugged peaks, deep valleys, numerous glaciers and lakes, streams 
and cascades offer a great amount of variation. The Continen- 
tal Divide passes through the Park with the result that the 
drainage of the western portion is into the Columbia River, 
while the northeastern part slopes toward the Hudson Bay, and 
the eastern into the Missouri River drainage. A greater amount 
of variation will be found here and with less sophistication than 
in any other of our park areas. 
In the herbarium of the University of Montana Biological 
Station at Yellow Bay are a number of plants which have been 
collected at the Park. Among these are a number which have 
not as yet been reported from that region even in Standley’s 
recent publication.* The present list is offered as an addition 
and slight contribution to the ] ledge of the flora of this region. 
Of the thirty-two species here listed twelve have not before been 
reported from the state of Montana. The names of these 
twelve are preceded by a dagger (f). Two of these, Carex Hele- 
onastes Ehrh., and Salix reticulata L., have not, so far as I am 
aware, been reported from the United States. They are Canadian 
species which have entered this country in the high mountains 
of this region, both being extreme northern forms. 
{7 1. DANTHONIA PINETORUM Piper, Fl. Northw. ne IQI5. 
D. spicata var pinetorum Piper, Erythea 7: 1899. D. 
thermalis Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Aue Circ. 30: 
1901. 
Mineral Park, August 10, 1910, M. E. Jones, at 1800 meters 
elevation. 
This is a northwest coast plant which has been reported as 
*Flora of Glacier National Park. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22: 235-438. 
pl. 33-52. 1921. 
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