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leriana). Dy. Hinman found in the crevices of a big cliff be- 
side the trail, two rare plants, one a kind of a lily, with a tiny 
white blossom (Lloydia serotina), the other white also, be- 
longing to the waterleaf family (Romanzoffia sitchensis).,  An- 
other day, from the next mountain beyond Sunset he brought 
back an interesting member of the saxifrage family which Mr. 
Piper declares has formerly been called heuchera but here- 
after is to be known as Hlinera racemosa after the botanist 
Elmer who has made notable collections in Washington. 
On the pumice slopes of Glacier peak there were few 
plants and those noticed were small of their kind. There 
were, however, most of the kinds usually found in this soil, 
among them Lyall’s lupine (Lupinus lyallii), the golden flea- 
bane (Frigeron aureus), the silvery leafed Dasiphora’ fru- 
ticosa, and the sturdy Lriogonum coryphaeum. But there 
was nothing to compare in size or brilliancy with the purple 
aster (Oreastrum alpigenum), that was a constant delight 
on the pumice slopes above Carbon glacier on Mt. Rainier. The 
plant growing highest on Glacier Peak was known as Niel 
owskia calycina, which is one of the two highest plants on Mt. 
Rainier. This was seen on Glacier Peak at over 9000 feet 
elevation, at the base of the last cliffs the party rounded be 
fore reaching the summit. 
The forests of yellow or bull pine (Pinus ponderosa) be- 
tween Lake Wenatchee and the upper Chewawa and down 
along Railroad Creek to Lake Chelan were new to dwellers 
west of the Cascades. The tall trunks with mottled orange 
brown bark and not a branch for twenty or thirty feet gave 
a color to the landscape that harmonized with the bright skies 
of Eastern Washington, and with the sparse undergrowth 
made a strong contrast to our cool, dimly lighted, vine-en- 
tangled Western Washington forests. Nearer Buck Creek 
pass, and along al! the branches of the Suiattle were giant 
cedars (Thuja plicata), hemlocks, the western hemlock (7'siuga 
heterophylla), and the black hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), 
firs, the alpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and the noble fir (Abies 
nobilis) with occasionally our own western white pine (Pinus 
monticola), the mountain dweller, that gave our club its em- 
blem, while up in the more sterile soil at camp Nelson grew 
the jack pine (Pinus contorta). 
