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frage family (Elmera racemosa). This was seen commonly in the 
Olympics in all kinds of rocky places, even on the summit of Mount 
Olympus. It is known on Mount Rainier, but has been found there by 
the writer only once, on the moraine of Frying Pan Glacier. Going 
on up the gorge a boggy place by some side stream has beautiful 
shooting stars (Dodecatheon jeffreyi), “little red elephants” (Pedieu- 
laris groenlandica), a delicate white flower with iris-like leaf (Tofieldia 
intermedia), the butter-wort, so-called from the appearance of its leaves 
(Pinguicula vulgaris), the most common of insectivorous plants, a 
cannibal, a veritable little wolf in sheep’s clothing, since it puts on the 
semblance of a violet. Here too is the true violet of the marsh (Viola 
palustre), the tiny speed-well whose looks say “forget me not” (Veron- 
ica alpina), and a leathery leafed saxifrage (Leptarrhena amplexi- 
folia). Higher still the projecting rocks are brightened by mats of 
purplish scarlet, which on closer inspection prove to be one of the 
primrose family (Douglasia levigata). Near this are yellow arnicas 
(Arnica latifolia), a low growing parsley (Lomatium martindalei), 
with a saxifrage or two (Saxifraga tolmiei, S. bronchialis, S. cespitosa). 
And yet above these Henderson's spiraea (Spiraea hendersoni), and, 
Alaska spiraea (Lutkea pectinata) mingle seareely distinguishable at 
a little distance. If one turns towards Mount Meany he may expect 
to be rewarded with a fireweed (Epilobium latifolhum) with blossoms 
even larger and more brilliant, if less numerous, than those of Epi- 
lobium spicatum, that glory of the burn. 
A day’s trip into Queets Basin even with the late lying snows of 
the season of 1913 well repaid the flower lover. As the line wound its 
way from Elwha Basin camp-site to the upper Elwha, there beside the 
trail were tall, graceful hare-bells (Campanula rotundifolia), slender 
little hawk-weeds (Hieracium gracile), large brilliant yellow St. 
Johnsworts (Hypericum scouleri), stiff fronds of the holly fern 
heavily charged with spore-cases (Polystichum lonchitis), shrubs of 
mountain ash (Pyrus occidentalis), and an occasional mountain golden- 
rod (Solidago corymbosa). Purple pentstemon (Pentstemon menziesi ) 
clung to the rocks above the great snow field near Dodwell-Rixon pass. 
A stop for rest and water was called by a little stream, that spread 
out into a diminutive marsh, newly thawed, but already golden with a 
wonderful mountain buttercup (Ranunculus suksdorfii). So eager is 
this flower to open its shining petals to reflect the sun that the writer 
has seen it actually blooming in a snow bank’s edge under an inch of ice 
that had evidently not yet melted during the season. It had no length 
of stem but looked as if its glowing face had warmed a little space for 
itself underneath the clear hard covering. 
In Queets Busin the flower that grew so abundantly, that everyone 
mistook for an anemone, was the globe flower (Trollius laxus). The 
dense mats of pale blue and lavender phlox (Phlox diffusa) and beds 
