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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
rocky ridges, down three thousand feet or more into the 
valley of the Kooskooskie. 
On the morning of the twenty -eighth of May I left the 
Discover^' Mine about three miles west of Long Mountain 
and on one of the numerous creeks which comedown from 
its slopes. My plan was to spend the day studying the 
flora of the slopes and if possible to make my way to the 
summit. The western slopes of the mountains are usually 
well wooded with dense forests of white and red fir, 
spruce, j^ellow pine and some white pine. Here and there 
one finds a few trees of the western larch. These are 
s; V-ndid trees peculiar to the Pacific Northwest and they 
arc without doubt the world's largest larches. 
In the bottoms of the gulches the ground is low and 
swampy and here the giant arbor- vitjes or cedars as they 
are called here attain their greatest size. Destructive 
forest fires have swept up many of these gulches leaving 
behind them a barren waste of blackened half-burned 
stumps and fallen trees. I had gone only a few rods when 
I came upon a tall shrub just bursting into bloom. I had 
frequently seen it before but never before in blossom. I 
found it to be a member of the buckthorn family, perhaps 
Ceanothus sanguineus. The low grounds along the creeks 
are favorite haunts of ferns and sedges. Dwarf cornel 
{Cornus Canadensis) clung to the overhanging banks of 
the streams or clustered about the base of huge cedar 
stumps. Its snow white bracts gave a beautiful and 
pleasing effect among the dark green leaves. In the 
boggy, moss-covered soil certain tall rein orchids {Haben- 
nria hyperhorea and H. dilatnta) were just coming into 
fiower. Twisted stalk [Streptopus ample xitblius) ^ thviiQ 
sj)ecies of false Solomons seal and another liliaceous plant 
- lie what resembling them (i^ro.svirres trach\carpa) are 
■-MUg the common plants of the forests. Other dwellers 
Lielowk-mds are the tall lungwort (Mertensia Siherica). 
, >c hellebore (leratruin Californica) .vMtvc w. -rt i .\//tc//a 
■.:::i<Ia and M. pentandra) and b . ; - ■ -■■icata 
argfita). 
