BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 65 
fruit is discovered—and male and female flowers have been 
detected on the Ohio specimens—it will prove to be sui 
generis. 2. Fissidens minutulus, Sull. 3. Fissidens exiguus, 
Sull. 4. Schistidium serratum, Hook. et Wils. 5. Marchantia 
disjuncta, Sull. 6. Aneura sessilis (Jungermannia sessilis, 
Hook. et Wils.) ; and, 7. Notothylas orbicularis and valvata, 
Sull. 
Catalogue of Mn. Guyer’s Collection of Plants gathered in 
the UPPER Missouri, the OREGON TERRITORY, and the 
intervening portion «f the Rocky Mountains ; by 
Wiese 
Having at p. 524 of our last volume concluded the inte- 
resting narrative of Mr. Geyer’s Journey in the above 
countries, it is now our agreeable task to publish a Catalogue 
of the plants forming the beautiful Herbarium made during 
that journey. The numbers, between parentheses, refer to 
those distributed with the collections. 
RANUNCULACES, Juss. 
1. Clematis Douglasii, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1, p. 1. Torr. et 
Gr. Am. 1, p. 8. | 
Has. Borders of wooded mountains and prairies in the 
Spokan River, Cœur d’Aleine and Nez Percez country, 
Upper Oregon. Corolla reddish-violet. Many stems rise 
from one root. April, May. (n. 313.)— These are splendid 
specimens of a beautiful Clematis. A singular use is 
related by Mr. Geyer to be made of the root of this plant. 
“ At a horse-racing of the Nez Percez Indians, I witnessed _ 
the application of the root. It happened that several px 
horses were run nearly to death; so that they fell down 
“during the heat of the day. As soon as such an accident — 
happened, an Indian Put : a piece of this root (the ut 
