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they did from the fresh pastures and “ dolce far niente’’ life of un- 
bridled license enjoyed at the Post at Vancouver. 
While the packs were being sorted, the different parties assigned 
their duties by the Lieutenant, and the animals fed and packed, I 
amused myself by seeing how many plants I could collect in a radius 
of one hundred yards. I first collected those which had “ escaped 
from cultivation,’’ as our dear and common teacher Dr. Gray would 
have quaintly remarked; then those camp followers of the cultivated 
army, following as they do wherever man tills the ground, and, 
lastly, the indigenous or native plants. Amongst the first were the 
. two clovers, white clover ( 77ifolium repens), and red clover ( 7: 
pratense), timothy ( Phleum pratense), June grass (Poa pratense ), 
orchard grass ( Dactylis glomerata), soft grass ( Holchus lanatus), 
and foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), with its various colors, white, 
blue, pink and purple. It is remarkable how this plant takes pos- 
session when once well started. Indigenous, I certainly cannot 
_ think it as some do, for I have never found it save along road 
sides, paths, or running wild about old homesteads. I have, how- 
ever, been frequently and pleasantly informed that I was approach- 
ing a home a mile or so before I reached it by meeting these 
handsome flowers waiting for me, as it were, by the road or by- 
path, Amongst the second class, the introduced ‘“‘weeds,’’ I col- 
lected the common little yellow clover ( 77rifolium procumbens), 
_ sow thistle (.Sonzchus asper), mouse-ear chickweed (cerastium vud- 
 gatum), ‘‘little” cranesbill (Geranium pusillum), curled dock 
(Rumex crispus), ribwort or rib-grass (Plantago lanceolata), plan- 
tain (P. major), cheat or chess (Bromus secalinus) (how often 
have I heard the remark by the more ignorant of the farmers of 
the Willamette Valley, ‘‘I planted that field in first class winter 
wheat, and it came up all cheat!’”’), Yarrow ( Achillea Millefolium ), 
false blue-grass ( Poa compressa), hedge mustard (Sisymébrium offi- 
cinale), pigweed ( Chenopodium album) sheep sorrel ( Rumex Aceto- 
sella), door-weed ( Polygonum aviculare), self-heal (Brunella vul- 
garis), chickweed (Stellaria media), cup-weed (cotula eiragy 
Solia), a ballast-waif from South Africa, which has made itself “a 
home”’ along the salt marshes everywhere in the Sound salts 
goose-grass (Pea annua), shepherd’s purse ( Capsella Bursa-Pas-: 
toris), common vetch ( Vicia sativa), nettle ( Urtica gracilis ), thyme- 
leaved speedwell ( Veronica serpyllifolia), and “ Mother carey 
(. ancien discoidea ). 
