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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[1898. 



Vaccinium Myrtillus L. 



New species. With a purple, 

 small berry, eatable — an ever- 

 green. Fort Clatsop, June 20, 

 1806. 27 



Vaccinium ovatum Pursh. 



A shrub of 7 or 8 feet high, 

 supposed to be a species of Vac- 

 cinium ; the berries are eaten by 

 the natives On the Pacific 

 Ocean. Fort Clatsop, June 27, 

 1806. 



Dodecatheon Meadia L. 



Near the narrows of the Co- 

 lumbia River. April 16, 1806. 29 



Frasera thyrsiflora Hook. 



In moist wet places, on the 

 Squamash flats. June 14, 1806. 

 [Leaf only]. 



Collomia linearis Nutt. 



Rockford Camp. April 17, 

 1806. 



Pursh, Fl. 290. 

 lumbia River. M. 

 May. 28 



On the Co- 

 Lewis. b_ . 



Swertia fastigiata Pursh, Fl. 

 101. On the Missouri Flats near 

 the Rocky Mountains. M. Lewis. 

 11. Julv, v. s. in Herb. Lewis. 



27 Vaccinium myrtilloides L. 



This specimen is not in flower or fruit, but is so nearly a fac-simile of 

 some forms of Gaultheria Myrsinites, which Pursh's Vaccinium obtusum has been 

 supposed to be, that it is in all probability the type of V. obtusum, Fl., p. 290, 

 though the description refers only to a specimen collected by Menzies. 



28 Vaccinium ovatum Pursh. 



'' A shrub 7 or 8 feet high, supposed to be a species of Vaccinium. The 

 berries are eaten by the natives. On the Pacific Ocean. Fort Clatsop, June 

 27, 1806." Pursh simply says I, p. 290, " on the Columbia Eiver, M. Lewis." 

 The Journal notes among the berry plants esteemed by the natives " a species 

 of huckleberry," and. referring to the huckleberry, "there are two species of 

 shrubs, first seen at the Grand Rapids of the Columbia, and since seen else- 

 where. They grow in rich, dry ground." The Columbia River specimen 

 not now in the collection was probably the one from which the description 

 was made. 



29 Dodecatheon Meadia L. 



4< Near the narrows of the Columbia River, April 16, 1806." Pursh over- 

 looks this ; it was probably the first finding of it so far west. There might 

 have been a specimen collected on the march up the Missouri in 1804. as in 

 the Journal under date April 17th, it is noted that " violets, doves foot and 

 cowslips are in bloom *' the Dudecatheon being probably referred to as cow- 

 slips. If to the return from the Pacific, April 9, 1806, when they found ''cow- 

 slips" again in bloom, would refer to the Columbia specimen. 



