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of yellow dog-tooth violets (Erythronium parviflorum), with all the 
heathers, white rhododendrons, yellow violets, and potentillas (Viola 
glabella and Potentilla flabellifolia) caused many a pause for admiration. 
Another day and another direction brought a new charm in a 
different group of flowers along the newly built trail up a steep openly- 
forested hillside to the Low Divide. Here revelled the pyrolas or 
wintergreens (Pyrola secunda, P. bracteata, P. picta), the prince’s 
pines (Chimaphila menziesii and C. umbellata), the creeping rasp- 
berries (Rubus pedatus and R. lasiococecus), and exquisite pink and 
white saprophytes of the Indian pipe family (Hypopitys hypopitys 
and Hemitomes vongestum). A little farther down in this forest others 
of this family had attracted much admiration, tall pendent pine-drops 
(Pterospora andromedea), and striped stalks of Allotropa virgata. 
Here and there was a little bed of stenanthiums (Stenanthium o0cci- 
dentale) or pedicularis (Pedicularis racemosa), while some spot a little 
wetter than the rest was overgrown waist high or more with green 
orchids (Limnorehis stricta), fringed or tasselled clusters of white 
Trautvetteria grandis and great, dark-blue larkspurs (Delphinium sco- 
pulorum). And near the divide every little stream made a swampy 
spot for white marsh marigolds (Caltha leptosepala). 
But on the topmost heights—what may one expect to find there? 
On our higher Cascade peaks the last flowering plant is left far behind 
ere the summit is reached, but in the Olympics the rock piles that 
project above the surrounding snow areas and form the summit of 
many peaks have in some way caught the seed and become the home 
of a considerable variety of plants. On the east peak of Mount 
Olympus, a mere heap of rocks, mostly loose, only a hundred feet or so 
above a snow field miles in extent, with barely standing room on top 
for our party of sixty-seven, the following plants were found in bloom: 
Saxifraga cespitosa, Polemonium humile, Phacelia sericea, Pentstemon 
menziesii, Elmera racemosa, Viola flettii, Hoorebeekia lyalli. There 
doubtless were others, butit was not possible to make the search complete. 
A collection of Olympic flowers has been made and is in the care of the 
Historian. 
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