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of the finest of these gorges are included in the system of public 
parks; the botanist need not leave the city limits to find splen- 
did collecting ground. Although bear, deer, grouse, wild geese, 
pheasants, gophers, etc., abound, there are no noxious reptiles 
or insects to disturb the collector. Beyond the city lie immense 
primeval forests of great beauty, containing giant red firs and 
‘white cedars over a thousand years old and from six to fourteen 
feet in diameter, pine and spruce in abundance, some hemlock, 
and scattered trees or clumps of oak, maple, alder, willow, and 
cascara. All of these trees are different from our eastern species. 
red fir, Pseudotsuga taxifolia, is the principal timber 
tree; an white cedar, Thuya plicata, is extensively used for 
shingles and posts, the heartwood containing an oil which resists 
ecay; the large-leaved maple, Acer macrophyllum, is planted 
on the streets for shade throughout much of the Pacific Coast 
region, and the trunks often develop cancerous swellings which 
supply a fine “curly maple”’ for furniture; the single species of 
oak is usually so knotty and misshapen that its chief use is for 
firewood; ‘‘Cascara Sagrada,’ Rhamnus Purshiana, furnishes 
the well-known medicinal bark of commerce. 
he University of Washington, situated in the suburbs of 
Seattle on the shore of Lake Washington, is uncxcelled for loca- 
tion, the campus being one of the finest in the world. Several 
of the permanent buildings and many of the exhibits used in 
the exposition of 1909 were afterwards turned over to the uni- 
versity, the forestry and ethnology exhibits being particularly 
d 
ood. 
We established ourselves at the University Inn, within a 
short distance of the botanical laboratories, and made excur- 
sions into Woodland Park, Ravenna Park, the forest north of 
Ballard, the shores of Green Lake and Lake Washington, a 
peat bog, and other localities that offered good opportunities 
for collecting fungi. These excursions were planned by Pro- 
fessor T. C. Frye, head of the botanical department, who very 
kindly placed at our disposal all necessary facilities. He also 
arranged to have Mr. S. M. Zeller, a graduate student in his 
department and an excellent collector, accompany me on many 
of these excursions. 
