108 The Mountaineer 



THE SEED PLANTS, FERNS, AND FERN AL- 

 LIES, OF THE HIGHER REGIONS OF THE 

 OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS. 



J. B. Flett. 



This list has been prepared from lists made by 

 Professors Piper and Henderson, also from collections 

 made by the writer, who has made five trips collecting 

 in different parts of this region. The plants of the 

 last expedition are not yet fully determined, hence are 

 only partially included in this list. This last collection 

 was made in the vicinity of Port Angeles and Mount 

 Angeles. This mountain has by far the richest flora. 

 Plants which are considered rare in other localities of 

 the Olympics, are found here in profusion. It is also the 

 most accessible region. An altitude of 6,000 feet can be 

 reached in a day from the city of Port Angeles. 



It is conceded by botanists, who have collected in 

 both the Cascade Mountains and the Olympics, that the 

 flora of the two regions is quite similar. The following 

 plants, said to be missing from the Olympic region, 

 were seen in the highly elevated region of Mount 

 Olympus : Saxifraga tolmiei, Lupinus lyallii, Gentiana 

 calycosa and Bucephalus ledophhllus with the possible 

 exception of the last. 



Few people have ever visited Mount Olympus, 

 which lies back from civilization about seventy miles. No 

 report has been made of its flora. The region has sev- 

 eral glaciers. Some of these are mere remnants showing 

 in the best possible manner recent striae, others are 

 five miles or more in length, having quite large moraines, 

 with their characteristic flora. It was near these old 

 moraines that the above plants were seen. A fuller 

 knowledge of the flora of the Olympic region will, 

 doubtless, show a greater similarity. The spruce (Picea 



