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=Carex arcta= Boott.
Mount Rainier, 4,000 feet alt.i.tude; Allen 271.
=Carex atrata= Linnaeus.
Collected by Allen, August 14, 1895.
=Carex laeviculmis= Meinschausen.
In swamps near the foot of the mountain.
=Carex hepburnii= Boott.
A handsome little plant common at 8,000 feet alt.i.tude.
=Carex kelloggii= W. Boott.
Along Paradise River; Piper, 2548.
=Carex rigida= Goodenough.
Allen, 269, and Piper, 2533, are referred here. The last-named specimens are from near the foot of Pinnacle Peak.
=GRAMINEAE.= (Gra.s.s Family.)
=Phleum alpinum= Linnaeus.
The "mountain timothy" is of frequent occurrence at 5,000 to 6,000 feet alt.i.tude.
=Agrostis geminata= Trinius.
Collected by Allen, in 1894.
=Agrostis aequivalvis= Trinius.
The plant referred here is common on the banks of the Paradise River up to 5,000 feet.
=Agrostis rossae= Vasey.
Slopes at 6,000 feet elevation; common.
=Agrostis humilis= Vasey.
Abundant in springy places at 8,500 feet elevation.
=Calamagrostis vaseyi= Beal.
Goat Mountains, Allen, and common on the rocky ridges north of Cowlitz Glacier.
=Calamagrostis scabra= Presl.
Not rare at 5,500 feet elevation; near Sluiskin Falls, Piper; Tatoosh Mountains, Allen.
=Deschampsia atropurpurea= (Wahlenberg) Scheele.
Common at 5,000 to 6,000 feet elevation.
=Danthonia intermedia= Vasey.
Common at about 5,000 feet alt.i.tude.
=Trisetum cernuum= Trinius.
Moist places up to 5,000 feet alt.i.tude.
=Trisetum spicatum= (Linnaeus) Richter.
Rare on the ridge near Camp of the Clouds.
=Cinna latifolia= (Trevira.n.u.s) Grisebach.
Common in wet ground about Longmire Springs.
=Poa arctica= R. Brown.
A gra.s.s doubtfully referred to this species is common at 5,500 feet elevation.
=Poa paddensis= Williams.
One of the most frequent gra.s.ses at 5,000 to 6,000 feet.
=Poa saxatilis= Scribner & Williams.
On rock cliffs at 6,000 feet. The type of this species is Piper No.
1964, from above Camp of the Clouds.
=Poa suksdorfii= Vasey.
Rather rare in the pumice at 9,000 feet elevation.
=Poa lettermani= Vasey.
On the slopes near Camp Muir, growing with the preceding.
=Festuca viridula= Vasey.
The finest gra.s.s on the slopes. Abundant at 5,000 feet elevation.
