MOUNT RAINIER 



Phacelia nemoralis Greene. 



This plant occurs on rock talus along the north side of Cowlitz 

 Glacier. 



Phacelia sericea Gray. 



A handsome species with silvery leaves and dense clusters of 

 purple flowers. Collected somewhere on the mountain by Rev. 

 E. C. Smith in 1890. 



POLEMONIACEAE. (Phlox Family.) 



Phlox difiusa Bentham. 



A prostrate plant with acerose leaves, when in bloom forming 

 dense masses of pale blue. Common at 5,500 to 6,500 feet altitude, 

 in rocky soil. 



Gilia gracilis (Douglas) Hooker. 



Growing on an old moraine along Carbon Glacier, Flett. 



Gilia nuttallii Gray. 



A white-flowered species found by Rev. E. C. Smith in 1890 

 somewhere on the southwest slopes of the mountain. 



Collomia debilis (Watson) Greene. 



Not rare in talus at the base of basalt cliffs on the east side of 

 the mountain at 7,000 feet altitude. 



Collomia heterophylla Hooker. 



Found by Mr. Gorman on the gravelly banks of the Nisqually 

 at Longmire Springs ; also by Flett ; a common lowland plant. 



Polemonium humile Roemer & Schultes. 



A handsome plant with pinnate leaves and corymbs of pale 

 blue flowers. Common on the rocks at 5,000 to 6,000 feet 

 altitude. 



Polemonium elegans Greene. 



(P. bicolor Greenman.) 



Similar to the preceding, but smaller and very glandular, the 

 blue flowers having a large yellow center. Rather rare in pumice 

 at 7,500 feet elevation. 



Polemonium viscosum pilosum Greenman. 



Very much like the preceding plant. Discovered by Allen on 

 the Goat Mountains, No. 261. 



GENTIANACEAE. (Gentian Family.) 



Gentiana calycosa Grisebach. 



An elegant plant with deep blue bell-shaped flowers. Abun- 

 dant along the rills at 5,000 feet. The species was described from 

 Mount Rainier specimens collected by Tolmie in 1833. Grisebach 

 also described a variety stricta, based on very trivial characters. 



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