MOUNT RAINIER 



Filix fragilis (Linnaeus) Underwood. 



Diminutive specimens of this fern were collected on the cliffs 

 at 8,000 feet altitude. Rev. E. C. Smith found much finer ex- 

 amples at a lower elevation. 



Cryptogramma acrostichoides R. Brown. 



Common in the coarse gravel on the bars of the Nisqually, 

 occurring even at the foot of the glacier. 



OPHIOGLOSSACEAE. (Adder's Tongue Family.) 



Botrychium lunaria (Linnaeus) Swartz. 



Specimens were collected by Rev. E. C. Smith on the north 

 side of the mountain in 1888. 



Botrychium lanceolatum (S. G. Gmelin) Angstroem. 



Longmire Springs, Allen, not otherwise known on the Pacific 

 Coast. 



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