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bells it turns its face upward to the sky instead of drooping. Hender- 
son’s spiraea was on all the mountains climbed. The flowers in a dense 
spike an inch or two long are easily identified as spiraea, though the 
plant grows low in a dense mat. On Marmot Pass was a big white 
aster (Aster paucicapitatus). On Mount Meany and Marmot Pass a 
very showy, purple, leguminous flower was found (Hedysarum o0eci- 
dentale), which does not occur in the Caseades but is found in the 
Rockies and northward. 
Beeause the Olympics are formed on a smaller seale than the 
mountains farther inland, it might be expected that the meadows and 
parks would not be of so great extent and would therefore give no 
opportunity for those great variegated flower carpets seen on Mount 
Rainier and other parts of the Cascades. This is true in a measure, 
particularly in the vicinity of Mount Olympus, where summit crags 
and glacier-bearing slopes seem to rise precipitously from the forests; 
and yet Queets Basin is a wonderful garden even in a year like 1913 
when the snows linger deep and late. Farther north towards the 
Straits are long, broad-topped, untimbered regions where the flower 
display rivals anything in Washington. Mount Angeles, first outpost 
of the embattled host of the Olympics, is unsurpassed as a field for the 
botanical collector or observer, and no doubt even yet has new treas- 
ures to reveal to some searcher. Only three years ago a large white 
aster-like flower was found on this mountain and named after its dis- 
coverer (Senecio websteri). South and west of Mount Angeles is the 
ridge of Hurricane Hill. A party going in there from the Elwha 
River near Humes’ ranch last summer report that not Paradise Valley 
nor Indian Henry’s has so extensive and such gorgeous flowery parks. 
The summer time from snow to snow would be too short to make 
more than a superficial survey of the plants of this mountain group. 
This article can undertake nothing more than a mention of certain 
flowers that would attract the attention of the non-scientific observer 
making a few one-day try-out trips in the Mountaineer’s line-up. 
Leaving Elwha Basin with its shrubby growth of pink mountain 
hard-hack (Spiraea densiflora), interspersed with squaw or Indian 
basket grass (Xerophyllum tenax), wild heliotrope (Valeriana sitchen- 
sis), meadow-rue (Thalictrum occidentale), and mountain smart- 
weed (Polygonum bistortoides), one crosses the yet snow-buried west 
branch of the Elwha to the little green meadow below the moraine in 
Marion Gorge, so named by the Mountaineers in 1913. In bright con- 
trast to the rocks of the moraine and the foaming glacial stream is the 
purple monkey-flower (Mimulus lewisii) and close by the deep yellow 
monkey-flower (Mimulus langsdorfii) which has come up from the low- 
lands, and the light yellow willow-herb (Epilobium luteum). But 
rarer than these which border countless mountain streams in Wash- 
ington is a little raceme of cream-colored bells, a member of the Saxi- 
