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. The drier hills were coucrcd with the large leaves and 
fading yellow flowers of the wild sunflower or arrow-leaf, while 
along the shores of the mee the balsam cottonwood and the 
aspen were common. 
Species of willow were found everywhere along the lake and 
bordering the streams and ponds. The hills and mountain slopes 
on both sides of the lake are heavily timbered. On the west lie 
and south, rising more or less steeply from the lake shore and 
reaching its highest elevation some miles south of the lake, being 
lowest at its northern extremity at Big Fork. 
The prevailing timber on the west of the lake is made up of the 
yellow or bull pine, the red or Douglas spruce and the western 
larch or tamarac, with the Lodgepole pine on the higher slopes. 
In one of the stately yellow pine forests I found the yellow moc- 
cassin-flower growing very luxuriantly in great masses as far as 
one could see. Ona moist slope where ferns and mosses were 
Serene the fragrant lady’s-slipper was found growing in large 
clumps over a foot high and with usually three large blossoms 
on a stem. The dainty little Venus’ slipper was found at the 
highest altitude in the Lodgepole forests. The black haw, red 
cedar and ninebark were common along the lake ag the 
latter converting the rocky slopes into masses of white. 
mock orange or syringa was found just coming into om on 
the steep, rocky banks of the Pend ]’Oreille River, the outlet of 
the lake to the south. 
During the past summer about six weeks were spent in this 
de beginning July 15. Our headquarters were at the station 
ork and most of our collecting was to the east and north- 
east ee the lake. In the party were Dr. M. J. Elrod, of the 
University of Montana, Professor Marcus E. Jones, of Salt Lake 
City, Mrs. Joseph Clemens, of Fort Douglas, Utah, Miss Ger- 
trude Norton, of Salt Lake City, and Miss Carrie M. Green, of 
Kalispel, Montana, who were more especially interested in plant 
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