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practicable, or absolutely safe. They were provisioned for a five to 
seven days trip. My hand having healed sufficiently to cause me 
less inconvenience, I was anxious to accompany one of the parties, 
since at the utmost I had but a few weeks at my disposal before I 
should be compelled to return. Both the Lieutenant and the Col- — 
onel however spoke strongly against my proposal, and unwillingly 
I gave it up. At ten o’clock, three hours after their departure, it 
commenced to pour, and glad enough I was then that I had not ac- 
companied them in my disabled condition. Before the party started 
I intimated to the Lieutenant that I should return to the Canal be- 
fore he got back, explaining the position fully to him. So ‘‘ good 
bys’’ were given and returned, and August 3d saw me on my re- 
turn, accompanied by one of the soldiers, Higgins, while my col- 
lection and few belongings were tightly strapped to the back of the 
faithful little mule, ‘‘ Frenchy.” As it was about twenty miles to 
Hoodsport, and as we wished to reach that point the evening of 
this day, we took one other mule to help us on our journey, and by 
riding in turns, render it less tedious. 
I found nothing to collect till I reached Lake Cushman. There 
a three weeks’ absence and the lowering of the waters of the lake 
had brought a few more flowers into view. These were Ginanthe 
Californica, an Angelica (A. Lyailii?) in flower, the creeping butter- 
cup (Ranunculus Flammula var. reptans) a sedge ( Carex stipata),a 
pretty aster (.4. foliaceous var. frondeus), the blue-flowered lettuce 
(Lactuca leucophea), now in full bloom, and the tall, drooping grass 
(Cinna pendula). In the dark fir forests bordering the lake, and 
for the ensuing two or three miles, the woods were thick with the 
ghostly stalks of the Indian pipe ( Monotropa uniflora). Nothing 
- else was seen to collect till we reached a gravelly, burnt plain, 
_ almost entirely devoid of underbrush, and with but few firs and other 
trees. The ground was thickly covered with salal, and kinnikinick; 
while clumps of the Lupine (Z. 7?vu/aris), Psoralea physodes, and 
Hosackia crassifolia, occurred at intervals. Then came quantities 
of the black pine ( Pinus contorta ), which differs here, as it does in 
the high mountains, from the ordinary seacoast form, possibly 
enough to merit the specific name that some give it of P. Murrayana. 
It struck me, as I looked at this tree, that it took just the interme- 
diate ground between the coast and high mountain forms, and made 
even the var. Murrayana of Engelmann unnecessary. The coast 
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