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July 20, 1898
Mount St. Helens, Skamania Co, Wash.
Made a trip up the mountain southeastward from Three Buttes camp. 
Plants in general same as yesterday. The following were seen highest: 
Eriogonum pyrolaefolium
Spraguea umbellata
Juncus parryi.
Saxifraga tolmiaei was also seen high up
Achillea millefolium was seen above timber line
Abies nobilis was seen at timber line
Visited a crag or butte about two or three miles [[insertion]] ^ southeast [[/insertion]] from camp, jutting out from the mountain near its base. The northeast slope is covered with a vegetation chiefly of [[underlined]] Phyllodoce empetriformis [[/underlined]], and it may therefore be called "Heather Butte".
On slopes having reached a [[strikethrough]] considerability [[/strikethrough]] considerable degree of stability and fed by a sufficient amount of snow water to keep the ground moist all summer, [[underlined]] Luetkea pectinata [[/underlined]] and [[strikethrough]] Bryan [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Phyllodoce empetriformis [[/underlined]] take an early hold and the latter especially forms humus rapidly. These are apt to be followed by

Transcription Notes:
Saxifraga tolmiaei = misspelling of S. tolmiei