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E. latifolium L. Pyramid Harbor, Muir Glacier, Alaska. * 



E. minutum Lindl. Fort Wrangel, Alaska. 

 E. panicnlatam Nutt. Departure Bay, B. C. 

 £. spicatum, Lam. Port Townsend, W. T. 



About eighteen inches or two feet, with narrow leaves Q inch), 

 tapering gradually at both ends. Yictoria, B. C, two to three 

 feet, leaves broader ; Killisnow Island, Alaska, four to five feet 

 high, leaves one to one and one-half inches broad, spike leafy, 

 and inclined to be paniculate. 



CUCURBITACEiE. 



Echinocysiis lobata T. & G. Columbia River, above Astoria, Or. 



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Arohangelioa Gmeleni D. C. Harrisburg, Kaigan, and other places in Alaska. 



The few whites we met called it "celery." In many Indian 

 lodges I saw bundles of fresh flower stems, and in some cases 

 Indians peeling or stringing them as we do rhubarb stalks, and 

 eating them raw with apparent relish. 



It is interesting to note that Linnaeus, in his tour in Lapland, 

 notes that the Laplanders use this plant in the same way. 



Crantzia lineata Nutt. Columbia River, above Astoria, Or. 

 Heracleum lanatum Mx. Harrisburg and many other places in Alaska. 



Geological survey of Canada says Indians eat the leaf-stalks ; 

 but I saw no evidence of this in Alaska. 



Ligasticum sooticum L. Idaho Inlet, Killisnow, Harrisburg, Alaska. 



Common along the Alaskan coast. 

 (Enanthe sarmentosa Presl. Departure Bay, B. C. 

 Sanicala Menziesii Hook & Am. Port Townsend, W. T., Victoria, B. C. 

 Slum cicatsefolium Gmel. Astoria, Or. 



ARALIACE^. 



Fatzia horrida B. & H. Pyramid Harbor, Harrisburg, and other places in Alaska. 



Often forming dense underbrush in forests, growing four to 

 eight feet high, and making traveling impossible unless with 

 great labor. An Indian explained to me that it was in common 

 use with them as a medicine. 



COHNACE-S3. 



Cornus stolonifera Mx. Pyramid Harbor, Alaska. 

 C. canadensis L. Sitka, Fort Wrangel, Alaska. 



