Nature Notes From Crater Lake
Volume 7, No. 3, September 1934
Applegate's Paint-brush on Applegate
Peak
By Elmer I. Applegate, Ranger-Naturalist
Last winter at Stanford University,
while preparing labels for my 1933 collection of Crater lake plants, I
was struck by the unusual repetition of a name on one of them. The label
reads something like this:
| Name of plant: |
Castilleja Applegatei. |
| Locality: |
Applegate Peak. |
| Collector: |
Elmer I. Applegate. |
The plant was named for me by Dr. M. L.
Fernald of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, based upon a
collection made by me on the summit of Mount Scott, in August, 1896.
To complete the story, I might add that
Mount Scott was named for Levi Scott, a member of my grandfather
Applegate's expedition in the initial exploration of southern Oregon and
the blazing of the Applegate Trail in 1846.
