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_ powering as its name, whether English or Latin. The last marsh 
plant was the peculiar burr-reed (.Sparganium simplex ). 
The hill-side plants were very numerous and kept me busy for 
an hour or more. First came the gorgeous Turk-cap lily ( Lilium 
Columbianum ), with its inverted and turban-like flowers, yellowish 
red and mottled with brown; Psoralea physodes, an inconspicuous 
plant, nearly a foot high, bending over or reclining, and covered 
- with an abundance of small, cream-colored flowers of the ordinary 
peatype; Wuttallia cerasiformis, the representative of the almond 
sub-genus on this coast, was just ripening its fruit near by. This is 
apretty bush, with its bright, elliptical leaves, racemes of drooping 
white flowers, and later its handsome clusters of indigo-colored 
fruit, which contrast prettily with their scarlet stems. The fruit is 
eaten with avidity by birds, bears, Indians, and occasionally by 
_ white people. Then I collected our commonest western ‘lyme- 
grass (Elymus Americanus), growing too isolated ever to become 
valuable as a forage-plant. The more noticeable among the other- 
plants were red-flowering currant (Les Sanguineum), black- 
_berried gooseberry ( Ribes divaricatum ), monkey flower ( Mimulus 
luteus), a handsome plant, with its large, irregular, funnel-shaped 
flowers, bright yellow and mottled with brown within; musk plant 
(Mimulus moschatus), prized as a potting plant on account of its. 
remarkably strong, musky odor; “tall” thistle ( Cetcus edulis ),a very 
variable plant—sometimes nearly destitute of prickles and tall, 
Teaching ten or twelve feet along the streams tributary to Yaq- 
-uina Bay; at others low and very prickly as usually found 
along the sea-shore, the young shoots said to be eaten with a relish 
by the western Indians; the three brambles, red-cap (Rubus Nut- 
kanus ), a handsome bush, with its wide, soft leaves, snow-white. 
flowers and red fruit; black-cap (2. leucodermis ), and dew-berry, 
or, as it is commonly called, wild blackberry (R. ursinus ); the 
delicate and sweet-scented yerba buena of the Californian Spaniards 
Micromeria Dougilasii), its dried leaves used by many as a tea 
plant; the delicate little enchanters’ nightshade (Circea Pacifica )e 
the red berried and evergreen huckleberries ( Vaccinium parovi- 
folium, and V. ovatum), the fruit of the former tart and pleasant, 
and a splendid substitute in uninhabited districts for puddings and 
pies; the second yielding a delicate and delicious berry, found in 
great quantities along the ocean or Sound country, and a staple 
