streams, or on the margin of lakes, particularly in deer or 

 buffalo ground, it attains the height of 6 or 8 feet. 



The native tribes that inhabit the interior of North Cali- 

 fornia apply the grains to the same purpose as that for 

 which we are informed by Nuttall the Indians of the 

 Missouri use H. tubaeformis. They collect them in the 

 autumn, and dry them on heated stones, or in wooden 

 troughs with small embers, stirring them with a stick to 

 prevent their burning. When dried, they are pounded and 

 made into a sort of cake which is not unpleasant. 



Ste77i erect, as high as a man or higher, hispid. Leaves 

 ovate, on long stalks, coarsely serrated, hispid, triple- 

 veined. Heads placed upon a hispid peduncle, with two 

 leafy bractese at their base. Involucriim squarrose, flat, 

 the leaflets ovate, cuspidate, hispid. Florets of the ray 36, 

 acuminate. PalecB 3-toothed, rather shorter than the florets 

 of the disk; these dark purple in the inside of their limb, 

 yellow on the outside. Pappus 2-horned. 



J. L. 



