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modestly under cliff or brush. Quotations about nature are 
never called for at Sunday evening camp fire without some- 
one revealing where his thoughts have been by Gray’s lines— 
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” 
Another calls up the deeper mystery Tennyson gave utter- 
ance to in the lines— 
‘Flower in the crannied wall, 
I pluck vou out of the crannies ;— 
Hold vou here, root and all, in my hand, 
Little flower—but if | could understand 
What vou are, root and all, and all in all, 
I should know what God and man is.” 
The botany bunch was reinforced this year by a goodly 
company of helpers. Chief among these was Dr. H. Bb. Hin- 
man, of Everett, who made practically all the valuable col- 
lections of the trip. He would find the choicest specimens 
in an apparently barren spot where most of the party would 
declare nothing grew. He would climb perpendicular cliffs 
and clinging to a ledge in mid-air, gather the treasures hid- 
den from others’ eyes, and all so fast that the old guard 
couldn’t get specimens in press as fast as he brought them in. 
Miss Angelica Martin, teacher of botany in the Everett 
High School, was unflagging in her interest and made a num- 
ber of photographs illustrating the flora of mountain mea- 
dows. Miss June Oakley, who had been inspired by work under 
Dr. Frye, assisted, particularly in the collection of mosses. 
And by no means the least helpful were those who were al- 
ways on hand to help change the blotters and screw up the 
clamps of the big press, and those whose faithful care saved 
the whole collection, while the botanists were on the big 
climb. Even Mr. Belt carried the press all one day, and the 
record of that service will go down in history with the picture 
of Mr. Belt’s form on top of a rock, outlined against the sky, 
with the paste-boards dangling from his back. 
Some fifty kinds of mosses were collected and sent to Dr. 
Frye of the University of Washington at his request. <A let- 
ter was written to Mr. C. V. Piper of the department of agri- 
culture, Washington, D. C., author of the Flora of the State 
