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  Osterhout: 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  botany 
  

  

  phila 
  Jamesii, 
  Castilleja 
  occidentalism 
  and 
  Tetraneuris 
  

  

  brevifolia, 
  Mertensia 
  

  

  may 
  

  

  Pikes 
  Peak. 
  

  

  plant 
  a 
  gi 
  

  

  J 
  

  

  Plants" 
  which 
  he 
  contributed 
  to 
  the 
  American 
  Philosophical 
  

   Society, 
  as 
  Veronica 
  plantaginea, 
  though 
  he 
  observed 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  

   " 
  unlike 
  in 
  habit 
  and 
  appearance 
  to 
  the 
  American 
  Species 
  of 
  

   Veronica" 
  Near 
  this 
  date, 
  too, 
  he 
  must 
  have 
  collected 
  the 
  

   Pent 
  stem 
  on 
  which 
  he 
  lists 
  in 
  the 
  "Catalogue 
  of 
  Plants" 
  as 
  "P. 
  

   coccmg/m 
  N. 
  S.? 
  ", 
  though 
  he 
  offers 
  no 
  description 
  of 
  it. 
  Evi- 
  

   dently 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  bright 
  red 
  Pentstemon, 
  and 
  I 
  suppose 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  

  

  am 
  

  

  On 
  July 
  i6th 
  the 
  Expedition 
  moved 
  from 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  

   Colorado 
  Springs 
  to 
  the 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  Arkansas 
  river 
  where 
  Pueblo 
  

  

  now 
  is. 
  

   men 
  as 
  

  

  J 
  

  

  r 
  

  

  Little 
  of 
  interest 
  is 
  noted 
  in 
  botanical 
  collecting 
  for 
  the 
  trip. 
  

   On 
  the 
  morning 
  of 
  July 
  19th 
  "we 
  turned 
  our 
  backs 
  upon 
  the 
  

   mountains, 
  and 
  began 
  to 
  move 
  down 
  the 
  Arkansa." 
  When 
  

   about 
  a 
  hundred 
  miles 
  down 
  the 
  river 
  the 
  party 
  divided. 
  Captam 
  

   Bell 
  with 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Expedition 
  continued 
  down 
  the 
  

  

  Major 
  Long, 
  accompanied 
  by 
  Dr. 
  James 
  

  

  men 
  

  

  July 
  

  

  James 
  

  

  Sphaeralcea) 
  stellata 
  Torr. 
  The 
  next 
  day 
  they 
  came 
  to 
  

  

  cam 
  

  

  bank 
  or 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  tributary 
  for 
  the 
  night. 
  Dr. 
  James 
  

  

  tA\ 
  

  

  enogonum 
  

  

  ment. 
  Notwithstanding 
  the 
  barrenness 
  of 
  the 
  soil 
  and 
  the 
  aspect 
  

   of 
  desolation 
  which 
  so 
  widely 
  prevails, 
  we 
  are 
  often 
  surprised 
  by 
  

   the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  splendid 
  and 
  interesting 
  productions 
  springing 
  

   up 
  under 
  our 
  feet, 
  in 
  situations 
  that 
  seemed 
  to 
  promise 
  nothing 
  

   but 
  the 
  most 
  cheerless 
  and 
  unvaried 
  sterility.'' 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  27th 
  they 
  extricated 
  themselves 
  from 
  the 
  rocky 
  canyons 
  

   of 
  the 
  Purgatory 
  River, 
  where 
  traveling 
  had 
  been 
  exceedingly 
  

  

  