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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 72 



" It is difficult to get into these nests, the huge smooth pahn trunk 

 (2 feet in diameter) must be cHmbed, and then it is difficult to crawl 

 over the huge mass of sticks which lie interlaced amongst the crown 

 of leaf stalks. 



" Most of the nests are in far larger palms than this one, and the 

 nests are frequently much larger in size, and probably contain much 

 larger colonies." 



Fig. 36. — Dense forest of giant cedar (riniya plicata) 

 near Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park. 



BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, 



MONTANA 



Mr. Paul C. Standley, assistant curator in the division of plants, 

 spent the summer of 191 9 in Glacier National Park, Montana, under 

 the authority of the National Park Service, for the purpose of study- 



