34 The Mountaineer 



leptosepala) ; the yellow, a small but very abundant 

 yellow flower, a rare plant found so far only on Mount 

 Eainier, and on Mount Rainier only in the vicinity of 

 Moraine and Spray Parks. It belongs to the celery 

 family, and has been named hesperogenia stricklandi. 

 The avalanche lily was at the height of its glory, three, 

 four, even five flowers on a stem, and of these flowers, 

 acres and acres, countless as the snowflakes in the 

 great banks that gave them water. 



Of all the trails the Mountaineers have followed, in 

 the Olympics, on Mount Baker, on Mount Rainier, none 

 surpasses the one from Spray Park to Crater Lake in 

 beauty or wealth of flora. The verdure of the under- 

 growth was furnished largely by the white rhododen- 

 dron (rhododendron alhiflorum) , not yet in bloom, and 

 its cousin menziesia ferruginea. Yet nearer the ground 

 were the two mountain huckleberries, the red and the 

 blue, the former with fine graceful leaves, as decorative 

 as the fronds of a fern ; while creeping along on the 

 ground, its last year's leaves left fastened close to the 

 earth by the weight of last year's snow, was the delicate 

 walking raspberry {rubus pedatus). At a turn of the 

 trail, where an opening in the trees revealed Spray 

 Falls, the nature lover was forced to divide his atten- 

 tion between the great silvery sheet of spray across the 

 canon and the gorgeous pink monkey flower (mimulus 

 lewisii) at his feet, and the earliest heads of rose- 

 colored mountain hard-hack [spiraea densiflora) just 

 above him. Farther down the trail in the midst of 

 great banks of wild heliotrope (Valeriana sitchensis), 

 already familiar at camp, were many white fringy 

 stems of trautvetteria grandis, and next long beds of 

 pink belled Solomons's seal (streptopus roseus), with 

 its tiny pink bells strung along under its spreading 

 leaves. Here and there a wake-robin (trillium ovatum) 



