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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[1898. 



Artemisia Ludoviciana Nutt. ? 



Artemisia species. Columbia 

 River, April 10, 1806. Artemisia. 

 Rockford Camp. 



Asl^r oblongifolius Nutt. 



Big bend of the Missouri, Sep- 

 tember 21, 1804. 



Aster Oreganus Nutt. 



On Lewis River, October, 

 1805. 



Balsamorrhiza sagittata Nutt. 



Rocky Mountains, dry bills, 

 July 7, 1806. 



Balsamorrhiza sagittata Nutt. 



The stem is eaten by the na- 

 tives without any preparation. 

 On the Columbia, April 14, 1806. 



[Bidens-like composite, too 

 poor to identify]. On Lewis's 

 River, October, 1805. 



Bigelowia graveolens Gray. 



A low shrub growing in the 

 rocky, dry hills on the Koos- 

 kooskee. May 6, 1806. 



Bigelowia graveolens Gray. 



No. 54, Oct. 2. Grows from 

 18 inches to 2 h feet, many stalks 

 from the same root, from which 

 they issue near the ground ; the 

 radix perennial. The goat or 

 antelope feed on it in the winter, 

 it is the growth of the high bluffs. 

 High bluffs; goats feed upon; 

 18 inches high. Oct. 2, 1804. 



Buphthalmum sag ittatum 

 Pursh, Fl. 564. On dry barren 

 hills in the Rockv Mountains, 

 M. Lewis. % . June, July, v. s. 

 in Herb. Lewis. The natives eat 

 the young stems as they spring 

 up, raw. 



Buphthalmum sag ittatum 

 Pursh, 1. c. 



Chrysocoma dracunculoides 

 Pursh (not Lam.), Fl. 517. On 

 high cliffs on the banks of the 

 Missouri. M. Lewis. % . Oct. 

 v. s. in Herb. Lewis. 



