22 The Mountaineer 
Just over the pass beside the trail out, grew many currant 
bushes (Ribes laxviflorum), low spreading elders (Sambucus 
melanocarpa) and mountain willows (Salix comimutata), 
while down a little farther by the many rills that crossed the 
trail were many choice flowers, the beautiful fringed white 
grass of parnassus (Parnassia fimbriata); the tiny purplish 
pink willow-herb (HLpilobium alpinum); the wonderful bog 
violet (Pinguicula vulgaris), a little cannibal among plants, 
that secretes a sticky fluid on its pale green greasy-looking 
leaves to catch and hold insects until it can appropriate their 
flesh and blood; the short matted mountain salal (Gautheria 
ovatifolia), sister of our well-known lowland salal, with oc- 
casionally a species more diminutive still with very small pink 
bells or green berries (Gautheria humifusa); besides saxi- 
frages (Saxrifraga odontophylla) and shooting stars (Dode- 
catheon jeffreyii). 
High up on the rocks near the top of Liberty Cap and 
Sunset mountain grew one of the smallest shrubs in_ the 
world, an interesting little willow, not over an inch or two 
in height, with prostrate stems, and bearing big saucy pussies. 
The three small kinds recorded by Mr. Piper, (Salix tenera, 
Salix sarimontana, and Salix nivalis) all grew on these moun- 
tains. 
The “flower of the crannied wall” of this trip was the 
mountain sorrel (Oxyria digyna) conspicuous in many a crev- 
ice on account of its racemes of bright red seed-like flowers 
and shining green leaves. Word often came back down the 
marching line to the botany bunch from some sympathizer, 
“Re sure to notice that beautiful red-green flower. What is it?” 
The day on Sunset Mountain vielded a rich harvest to the 
collector. Half way up the steep slopes our youngest member, 
George Hinman, found many a modest little blue hare-bell 
(Campanula scabrella) while among the rock piles of the 
summit grew delicate blue and white anemones (Anemone 
hudsoniana) a dwarf mustard (Draba glacialis), a brilliant 
purple rock cress (Arabis lyallii) small plants with leaves 
shaped like those of the strawberry (Sibbaldia procumbens ) 
and the hardy everlasting, the edelweiss of our mountains, 
(Antennaria media). 
On the way back in amongst the white heather grew many 
little sprigs of exquisite Alaska heather (Harrimanella_stel- 
