308 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP [1898. 



slips are in bloom,' the Dodecatheon being probably referred to as cow- 

 slips." But L. and C. were not on the voyage up the Missouri on 

 April 14, 1804 ; they did not start till May 14, 1804, and at date of 

 April 17, 1804, there is not a word about cowslips in the Journal. 

 What Mr. Meehan means is a passage in the meteorological register 

 kept by L. and C. at Camp Dubois, at the mouth of Wood River, 

 which empties into the Mississippi in Illinois, till the date of their 

 departure. The correct quotation for April 17, 1804, is: "the 

 violet, dove's-foot, and cowslip are in blow," p. 1283 of my edition. 

 Mr. Meehan's other citation of "cowslip," at date of April 9, 1806, 

 also found in the meteorological register, p. 1295 of my edition, is 

 correctly referred to the Columbia River. 



Frasera thyrsiflora Hook. Swertia fastigiata Pursh, Fl. 101. 



June lJf., 1806. " Squamash flats," as given, means Quamash 

 flats, on the Lo Lo Trail, west of the Bitter-root Mountains. So also 

 does Pursh's " on the Missouri Flats near the Rocky Mountains," 

 which reads curiously to one who knows the geography of the route. 

 It is wrong by several hundred miles — yet not so far out of the way 

 as some others of his that I could instance. 



Colloma linearis Nutt. 



April 17, 1806. " Rockford "=Rock Fort Camp, on the Col- 

 umbia. 



Gilia aggregata Spreng. Cantua aggregata Pursh, Fl. 147. 



June 26, 1806. Hungry Creek, as given, is correct ; a small trib- 

 utary of the north fork of the south fork of the Kooskooskee, east 

 of Collins' Creek, in the mountains of the Lo Lo Trail. Pursh's 

 "banks of the Mississippi," as cited in Mr. Meehan's paper, is more 

 than a thousand miles out of the way; and if this be an inadvert- 

 ence for " banks of the Missouri," still it is wrong by several hun- 

 dred miles. 

 Polemonium cseruleum L. 



June 27, 1806. One day further east than the last, on the Lo Lo 

 Trail over the Bitter-root Mountains. 



Phacelia oircinata Jacq. P. heterophylla Pursh, Fl. 140. P. scabioscefolia Pursh, 



MS. (typo). 



June 9, 1806. Camp Chopunnish, the day before L. and C. left 

 it. Mr. Meehan's footnote is erroneous in citing " on the Kooskoos- 

 kee, August 9, 1806 " — I presume merely by a slip of the pen. On 

 August 9, 1806, L. and C. were on the Missouri below the mouth of 

 the Yellowstone. 



