MOUNT RAINIER 



Anemone hudsoniana (De Candolle) Richardson. 



Collected on the Goat Mountains by Mr. Allen, No. 250. 



Pulsatilla occidentalis (Watson) Freyn. 



Common on the dry slopes 5,000 to 6,000 feet elevation. 

 Flowers large, white or bluish, developing a large head of tailed 

 carpels, which has much the appearance of a hussar's cap. 



Trautvetteria grandis Nuttall. 



A tall plant with large maple-like leaves and loose corymbs of 

 delicate white flowers. Abundant in shady woods up to 4,000 

 feet elevation. The pallid blossoms, in sharp contrast to the 

 shade they dwell in, has prompted the name of " ghost flower." 



Ranunculus suksdorfii Gray. 



A bright-flowered buttercup, not rare in moist places at 5,500 

 feet elevation. 



Ranunculus verecundus Robinson. 



On rocky ridges at 7,000 feet altitude, Flett. 



Caltha leptosepala De Candolle. 



(C. macounii Greene.) 



Wet places, 4,000 to 6,000 feet ; plentiful. 



Aquilegia formosa Fisher. 



The common scarlet and yellow columbine of the lowland, found 

 on the grassy slopes at 5,500 feet elevation. 



Delphinium bicolor Nuttall. 



A handsome blue and white-flowered larkspur, found in the 

 Goat Mountains by Mr. Allen, No. 146. 



Delphinium glaucum Watson. 



This larkspur is tall, three to four feet high, with rather many 

 large leaves, and long racemes of pale blue small flowers. Col- 

 lected by Mr. Allen in the Upper Nisqually Valley, and by the 

 writer near Crater Lake. 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE. (Pink Family.) 



Silene lyallii Watson. 

 (S. macounii Watson.) 

 (S. douglasii viscida Robinson.) 



Distinguished from its near allies by its four-lobed petals. 

 Not rare at 6,000 feet altitude. 



Silene suksdorfii Robinson. 



A low species, with scapes mostly one-flowered. Rather rare 

 in the loose basalt talus near the base of Little Tahoma. 



Silene acaulis Linnaeus. 



The " moss campion " of Europe, and common in the Rocky 

 Mountains. Collected by Mr. Flett near the Mowich Glacier. 



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