VOL. I11.] A Botanical Tramp. Itt 
Prunus demissa greeted our eyes frequently along the stream we 
were following. 
Purshia tridentata was out of bloom until we came to the higher 
regions, and there we found the leafless bushes one mass of yellow, 
fragrant bloom; at places the mountain sides seemed golden as they 
were covered with this luxuriant plant. It is every way worthy of 
cultivation. 
Geum strictum and triflorum were frequently found, the latter 
always attracting attention, both in bloom and fruit. The flowers 
appear like drooping buds, and the erect plumose fruits are lovely 
and graceful waving in the sunshine. 
Fragaria Virginica var. Illinoensis was very abundant on mount- 
ain sides and parks. 
Of the Potentillas we met glandulosa, Norvegica, rivalis var. mil- 
legrana, Pennsylvanica, Hippiana, gracilis, and Auserina. Rosa 
Sayi and Arkansana were in bud, with here and there a bloom. 
One good sized tree of Crategus Douglasti was met on the mount- 
ain side in gorgeous bloom; mixed with the surrounding pines and 
fir it seemed like a vase of Nature’s own setting. 
Amelanchier alnifolia was mostly out of bloom and in fruit. 
As we climbed the mountain top we found Geranium tncisum, 
and Richardsoni, Acer glabrum, Trifolium ertocephalum, Rubus 
strigosus, and Astragalus campestris. 
In a bog on the mountain top we gathered fine specimens of 
Saxifraga integrifolia, and Camassia esculenta, whose fine bulb is 
delicious and nutritious, and ought to be experimented upon as giv- 
ing promise of a new and valuable food product for our markets. 
The delicate 7e/ima parviflora was eagerly gathered. Heuchera 
cylindrica and parvifolia we found everywhere on the mountain 
sides. 
Philadelphus Lewisii was just making its appearance, and will 
soon become valuable for export all over the United States as a 
much prized shrub for lawns and gardens. 
The Ribes met with were 2. oxycanthoides, lacustre, Hudsonianum, 
cereum, viscosissimum, floridum, sanguineum var. variegatum and 
aureum. Ribes viscosissimum is a valuable low shrub, very fragrant. 
Its range is very restricted. * : Loan 
Musenium trachyspermum, Sium cicutefolium, Osmorrhiza nuda, 
and occidentalis, Zizia cordata, Psendocymoplerus bipinnatus, Peuce- 
