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over the moist sunny surface. Cyperoidea (45 5), with Gratiola 

 Missurica, conclude this group. Near the Bartonia, but close 

 to the water, I found the two Composite (452 and 453), 

 forming large bushes ; the former with fragrant foliage. 



In small exsiccated ponds, surrounded by Spiraa Dou- 

 glassii, Alnus and Rhamnus, I found Polemonium (530), 

 with Aster (587 and 633), Ranunculus (580), Delphinium (420), 

 Carex (573), and the surface covered with Portulaca? (531), 

 almost decayed when I found it ; adjoining are loamy plains, 

 with Chrysopsidea, Artemisia (668), Trifolium (678), but espe- 

 cially the elegant Erigeron (571) ; also meads of Collomia, 

 Clarkia, &c. ascend to the mountain-spur, which we will 

 visit to glance at the vegetation in the late summer months. 

 Shrubs of Spirea aruefolia and 558, grace the bare granite rock 

 below and above, on sunny sides, with Philadelphus ; Clarkia 

 makes way for Eucharidium (658), though only in this locality 

 (Tshimakain), and on the first pine-clad terrace grows the tall 

 Koelera (527), with Orchis (534). Higher up the naked 

 granite, grow patches of Arbutus Uva ursi, and the hgnose 

 suffrutescent Pentstemon (438). The cracks of the rock are 

 filled with mould, and support strips of Calochortus macro- 

 carpus and Avena ? (189). The Pines are generally colossal, 

 and some of them abound with the parasite Arceuthobium (577)> 

 so much as often to bend down the branches. Descending 

 a little sideways from the mountain path, towards rivulets we 

 find Linnaa borealis, Pyrola (427 and 428), Viola (602), and 

 here also grows the singular one-flowered, two-leaved, fifi** 

 ceous plant (No. 528), with a long, slender, creeping rhizonia 

 I did not see the flower, but it was described to nie as 

 pale yellow. With it, but in deep, shady, dry, places, grows 

 the Composita (523), with Aspidium Flliwfaemina, Rubus Nut- 

 kanus, &c. 



In the dry mountain woods I noticed a species of Scor+t 

 nera ? (523), with a white, succulent, lactescent, fusiform tuber, 

 eaten by the natives, and as good as an asparagus-shoo > 

 the tuber renews itself every year, like that of a Dafdia. 

 large-headed Trommon (668), grows with it, and forms fields in 



