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twisted oaks, Quercus Garryana, which supported great quanti. 
ties of mistletoe and a long gray lichen similar to the Spanish 
moss of tropical America. This lichen, a species of Alectoria, 
is very abundant on trees of all kinds on the Pacific Coast. 
In the old fir forests at Glen Brook, from 400 to 1,000 feet 
elevation, there was splendid collecting, and I traveled a linear 
distance of about ten miles on foot before the train was ready to 
return. Mr. Carter, the owner of much of this woodland and 
the promoter of the railway, showed me every courtesy, and while 
the sparks from the fir in the fire-box of the engine lighted the 
sky like myriads of fireflies, he gave me an account of handling red 
fir and white cedar logs twelve feet thick with donkey engines. 
Indeed, some of the logs on our train were so large that it was 
deemed dangerous to pass the bridge near Corvallis in the dark, 
so we left the train there and walked into town. 
All of the next day was required in working up the Glen Brook 
collection and getting the specimens to drying. Onaccount of the 
rains, artificial heat had to be used for all the Oregon collections. 
A room with a large sheet-iron stove was devoted to this purpose, 
and over the stove were suspended parallel frames of wire netting, 
on which the specimens were spread. When completely dried, 
they were wrapped in newspaper with the accompanying field 
notes and descriptions and laid away in drawers until the time 
for packing and shipping arrived, when they were sent by express 
to New York to be put into boxes with naphthalene flake and 
kept in a dry place until my return. If not shipped promptly, 
there is danger of moulding, of insect attack, and of injury from 
frequent handling. Colored sketches, made by Mrs. Murrill, 
were numbered to correspond with the specimens and retained 
for encaaaee with later novelti 
On November 9, before Peon I left for a day’s collecting 
at Mill ae on the western foothills of the Cascades fifty miles 
east of Corvallis, where there are large sawmills and virgin 
forests of red fir and other conifers. The yellow fir forests 
begin at Granite Mountain, a few miles farther on, but a snow- 
storm had visited this region and rendered collecting difficult if 
not impossible. 
