20 The Mountaineer 
of Washington, published by the government among the con- 
tributions to the National herbarium, the man who has done 
more work than any one else on the flowers of the state, ask- 
ing him what kind of report should be made to him on the 
flora of this hitherto botanically unexplored region. A short 
time after Mr. Piper, while on a visit to Seattle, called in per- 
son to see the collection made by the Mountaineers; later about 
thirty specimens were sent to him for determination. 
On no previous trip have such extensive beds been seen 
of one kind of tlower growing to the exclusion of all others, 
except perhaps, the great slopes of the avalanche lily, (Lry- 
thronium montanum) on Mt. Rainier, which, strange to say, 
was not once found in the Glacier Peak region. The yellow 
lily, or dog-tooth violet, (Lrythronium parviflorum) took its 
place. Mr. Nelson reported acres of it covering the lower 
slopes of Sunset Mountain when he made a preliminary trip 
earlier in July. When the main party reached camp, only 
the seed vessels were to be seen on this slope, but just beyond 
the men’s quarters, on the trail back from Liberty Cap was a 
little hollow filled with nodding yellow blossoms belated by 
the slow melting of snow on a north slope. On Sunset Moun- 
tain the slopes had put off their golden hue and turned to 
white, the fluffy white of myriads of spikes of a mountain 
smart-weed (Polygonum bistortoides). 
All the way up Buck Creek and down all the branches 
of the Suiattle the banks of the streams were lined with the 
great gorgeous crimson monkey flower (Jimulus  lewisii), 
named by Meriweather Lewis after his famous trip of ex- 
ploration early in the nineteenth century. On all sides of camp 
were clump after clump of the white rhododendron (Rhodo- 
dendron albiflorum), its creamy white blossoms no less beau- 
tiful than the more showy state flower, the pink rhododendron. 
The packers said this bush was always called by them “Snow- 
brush.” 
All Mountaineers are familiar with the painter’s brush, 
or painted cup, or Indian pink as it is variously called, but 
here on the hillsides near Buck Creek pass were great masses 
of a greenish white variety not distinguished from the red 
in name (Castilleja oreopola). Down by the Suiattle near 
“camp Rain-in-the-Face” where the largest plants and the 
most extensive beds of the yellow willow herb (Lpilobium 
