FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 
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of the Eastern States, though the salal has a more erect habit of 
growth, with its zigzag stem and raceme of white um-shaped flowers 
and bluish-black berries. The red, black, and blue huckleberries are 
also common here, especially in openings through the forest. 
Present everywhere is the Canada dogwood, Cornus canadensis 
(fig. 3), with its creamy-white heads surrounded by four bracts which 
look like petals. Inside of these bracts are the real flowers, which 
are small. It is difficult to tell whether this plant is more beautiful 
in flower or in fruit. The fruit consist of a beautiful bunch of bright 
red berries which hang on for a long time. No plant receives more 
Fig. 4.—Alpine beauty (Clintonia unijiora). 
Color of flower, white; height of plant, 2 to 4 inches; blooms July and August. 
Photograph by J. B. Flett. 
attention and praise from the tourist than does this little dogwood. 
In some localities in the East it is popularly called “bunchberry.” 
On close examination its relationship to the large flowering dogwood 
can he plainly seen. The Canada dogwood is in bloom a second time 
late in the fall. Mixed with the little dogwood is the pure-white 
alpine beauty, Clintonia unijiora (fig. 4). This species, with its 
single flower of six petals, surpasses in beauty its eastern relatives. 
This liliaceous plant is little known to those traveling through the 
mountains. It belongs to the lily-of-the-valley family, as do the 
false solomon seals which often bloom with it in July and August. 
