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luteum) that the botany bunch had seen, The chickahamie, 
or little mountain badger, appreciated these, for in the hay 
that he had spread out to dry all around the foot of a tree 
were many little swaths of yellow epilobiums. 
Nowhere in the Cascades does the heather bloom more 
profusely than in this section. The artists were forced to use 
the purplish tints of the red heather (Phyllodoce empetri- 
formis) in the foreground of all their pictures, while up 
higher on the hills on either side of the pass, lunch was in- 
variably eaten with the party seated in the midst of white 
heather (Cassiope mertensiana) never so pure and full of 
bloom as here. 
No one who took the first try-out trip to Green hill ex- 
pects ever to see a more gorgeous, a more variegated, a more 
splendid display of flowers than on the top and sides of that 
hill. At once some called it Flower hill and others National 
hill, because the effect was that of the colors of the flag. The 
masses of red were those of the red painter’s brush, the white 
the polygonum already mentioned, and the blue, a lupine 
(Lupinus subalpinus) and a gentian (Gentiana calycosa). 
But besides these predominating colors were many others, the 
vellow of buttercups (Ranunculus suksdorfii and Ranunculus 
verecundus), potentillas (Potentilla flabellifolia) often mis- 
taken for buttercups, stone crop (Sedum stenopetalum), slen- 
der hawkweeds (Hieracium gracile), and a cousin to the dan- 
delion (Agoseris glauca); there was the burnt orange of the 
Agoseris aurantiaca, the white or pinkish white of the so- 
called mountain heliotrope (Valeriana sitchensis) the lavender 
of an aster-like flower (Frigeron salsuginosus), the dull cream 
of a wild pink (Silene douglasii), the pale blue of Jacob’s 
ladder (Polemoniun coerileunt), and the greenish silky akenes 
of the western mountain anemone (Pulsatilla occidentalis). 
Down on the slopes, the big sturdy stalks of green hellebore 
(Veratrum viride), which Mr. Blake thought resembled a 
corn field, helped the grass and alpine firs to give this hill its 
permanent name, Green hill. 
Numberless little waxy white mountain spring beauties 
(Claytonia asarifolia) grew in the grass that carpeted the 
park chosen for the camping site. Yellow arnicas and senec- 
ios were abundant, (Arnica latifolia, Arnica mollis and Sen- 
ecio ochraceus ). 
