NATURAL HISTORY. 



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neighbourhood. We first disco- 

 vered the honeysuckle on the wa- 

 ters of the Kooskooskce, near the 

 Chopunnish nation, and again 

 below the Grand rapids. 



2. The alder, which is alio 

 common to our country, was 

 found in great abundance in the 

 woodlands, on this side of the 

 Rocky mountains. It diJlers in 

 the colour of its berry : this being 

 of a p.-ile sky blue, while that of 

 the United States is of a deep 

 purple. 



3. The seven bark, or, as it is 

 usually denominated, the nine 

 bark of tlie United States, is also 

 common to this country. 



4. The huckleberry. There is 

 a species of huckleberry, common 

 to the highlands, from the com- 

 mencement of the Columbian ral- 

 ley to the sea-coast, rising to the 

 height of six or eight feet, branch- 

 ing and diffuse : the trunk is cy- 

 lindrical, of a dark brown colour; 

 the collateral branches are green, 

 smooth, and square, and pvit forth 

 a number of alternate branches of 

 the same colour, and from the 

 two horizontal sides only. The 

 fruit is a small deep piu'ple berry, 

 held in much esteem by the na- 

 tives : ,the leaf is of a pale green, 

 and small, three-fourths of an 

 inch in length, and three-eighths 

 in width, oval, terminating more 

 acutely at the apex than at the in- 

 sertion of the footstalk : the base 

 is nearlj^ entire, and but slightly 

 serrate : the footstalks are short ; 

 their relative position is alternate, 

 two-janked, and proceeding from 

 the horizontal sides of the boughs 

 only. 



5. There are two species of 

 shrubs, first seen at the Grand ra- 

 pids of the Columbia, and which 



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have since been seen elsewhere : 

 they grow in rich dry grounds, 

 usually in the neighbourhood of 

 some water-course : the loots are 

 creeping and cylindrical : the stein 

 of the first species is from a foot 

 to eighteen inches in height, and 

 about as large as an ordinaiy 

 goose quill : it is simple, un- 

 branched, and erect : its leaves are 

 cauline, compound, and spread- 

 ing : the leaflets are jointed, and 

 oppositely pinnate, three pair, and 

 terminating in one sextile, widest 

 at the base, and tapering to an 

 acuminate point : it is an inch 

 and a quarter in its greatest 

 width, and three inches and a 

 quarter in length : each point of 

 the margin is armed with a subu- 

 late thorn, and fjom thirteen to 

 seventeen in number : are veined, 

 glossy, carinated and wrinkled : 

 their points obliquely tending to- 

 wards the extremity of the com- 

 mon footstalk : the stem of the 

 second species is procumbent, 

 about the size of that of the first 

 species, jointed and unbranched : 

 its leaves are cauline, compound, 

 and oppositely pinnate : the rib is 

 from fourteen to sixteen inches in 

 length, cylindric and smooth : the 

 leaflets are two Inches and a half 

 long, and one inch wide, and of 

 tl)e greatest width half an inch 

 from the base : this they regular- 

 ly surround, and from the same 

 ])oint tapering to an acute apex : 

 this is usually terminated with a 

 small subulate thorn : they are 

 jointed and oppositely pinnate, 

 consisting of six pair, and termi- 

 nating in one : sessile, serrate, 

 and ending in a small subulate 

 spire, from twenty-five to twenty- 

 seven in number : they are smooth, 

 plain, and of a deep green, and 

 2 N all 



