MOUNT RAINIER 



is common in the pumice fields at 7,00x5-8,000 feet altitude, but, 

 strange to say, also occurs on the borders of small lakes at the 

 foot of Pinnacle Peak at 4,500 feet elevation. In exposed places 

 at high altitudes the leaves are often curiously twisted. It was 

 originally described from the specimen collected on Mount Rainier 

 by Tolmie. 



Solidago algida Piper. 



A small goldenrod, two to twelve inches tall, occurring ordinarily 

 on the faces of perpendicular cliff's at 5,000 to 6,000 feet elevation. 



Artemisia borealis wormskioldii Besser. 



A silky canescent wormwood about one foot high, its leaves 

 pinnate ; found on the north side of the mountain by Flett. 



Artemisia richardsoniana Besser. 



In the Synoptical Flora, Vol. II, p. 371, this species is stated 

 to have been collected on Mount Rainier by Tolmie. On the 

 sheet in the Gray Herbarium Dr. Gray has indicated that this is 

 an error, the specimens having really been collected in the Rocky 

 Mountains by Burke. 

 CAMPANULACEAE. (Bellflower Family.) 



Campanula rotundifolia Linnaeus. 



This charming and familiar blue bell is abundant on the cliffs 

 near the foot of Cowlitz Glacier. 

 VALERIANACEAE. (Valerian Family.) 



Valeriana sitchensis Bongard. 



An abundant plant at 4,000 to 6,000 feet altitude. The leaves 

 are pinnately compound, the rather large leaflets repandly den- 

 tate. The flowers are whitish, usually pink tinged. Like other 

 species, this valerian has a decidedly unpleasant odor, that is 

 difficult to compare with any other. To the writer the odor is 

 always associated with mountain meadows, doubtless because it 

 so frequently predominates in such places. 



RUBIACEAE. (Madder Family.) 



Galium triflorum Michaux. 



A very common species of bedstraw which ascends on the lower 

 slopes of the mountain. 



Galium oreganum Britton. 



Goat Mountains, Allen, No. 296. 

 SCROPHULARIACEAE. (Figwort Family.) 



Chelone nemorosa Douglas. 



A handsome plant with opposite serrate leaves and corymbs of 

 purple-red flowers somewhat like those of the foxglove. Dry 

 cliffs and slopes at 5,000 feet altitude. Also reported by Gorman 

 as occurring at Longmire Springs. 



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