Volume 9 December 3, 1914 
MUHLENBERGIA 
FLORA OF WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON—I. 
By WALTER L. C. MUENSCHER 
During the last five years, Ig10 to 1914, it has been the 
writer’s pleasure to collect, from time to time, plants froin var- 
ious regions of Whatcom county, Washington. The author’s 
collection consists of considerably over 400 species and varieties 
of plants. To this list are added a number of plants which the 
writer did not collect, but which were obtained in this region 
by other botanists. Among these collections those of Miss 
Annie L. Fallis, instructor in botany in the Bellingham high 
school, and the collections of the botanists which are reported 
in Piper’s Flora of Washington, are to be given special mention. 
In each case where a plant is included in the list, the collector’s 
name is given, unless it was collected by the writer. 
The specimens were determined by the writer, and were 
placed in his private herbarium. Doubtful ‘species were com- 
pared with herbarium specimens, either in the herbarium of the 
State College of Washington at Pullman, or in the herbarium 
of the Puget Sound Marine Station at Friday Harbor, Washing- 
ton. All available literature on the northwest flora was used, 
but in general the nomenclature of Piper’s Flora of Washington 
was followed. Many of the common names were taken from 
“Frye and Rigg’s Northwest Flora.’ The writer extends 
thanks to the above mentioned institutions and authors for their 
aid in this work. 
Whatcom county is located in the extreme northwestern 
part of Washington. It stretches over about 100 miles from its 
extreme western to its extreme eastern boundaries, and runs 
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