1^ F>UI:>T i>i 



a Nun. 

 ./ T..IT vx- ( iray 



Doll'J. 



s L. 



\HS Moelleh. 



l-'rom lli- time this collection was made it w;is nearly :',() 



re ;iiKtlli( r observation was made upon the flora of the 



ol Montana, unless we except the visit of David Doiii'l:i> 



\vh> at least approached tin- \vcs1crn boundary in 1826. In 



r, Alexander Phillip Maximilian (41), Prince of 



Neiiw. id. made notes (iii the vegetation from Fort Union, near 



the month <f the Yellowstone, up the Missouri River to the 



mouth of th- .Marias. In the ravines at Fort Union, he observed 



thickets of oak. Im. box elder, and bird cherry (probably Primus 



./ L . On the hanks of the Missouri were poplars, 



will. .\\>. ash. elm. :,o\ elder, etc., with a thick undergrowth of 



-s and blackberry. The occurrence of oak, elm, and 



ash is to be expected ahum the Missouri bottoms but the present 



bourdary of Montana is about the western limit of their ranire. 



ibtful it' they have since been reported in Mont;.;ia. 



h's joiii-neys to Oregon beyuii. in 1832 and occupying 



ars, \~> . followed a route via Green River and 



the Snake smith of the n-j-'mn here considered, but approacliin^r 



the \\esteni border in Ka-tern Idaho. On the second of these 



(1834), he s\,,s a< <-nmp;inied by Thomas Nuttall. Then- 



;i-s to be no record of his collections on this trip, \\yeth. 



'turn from tin- first expedition, is said h> Dave 



led the ('lark's Kork of the Columbia, thence southward 



b'""t and the hi- II. ,1,. to the Salmon River in 



d from tin-re across to the llj...- Horn and the Yellow- 



"lle,-tioi, d by Nuttall and are de- 



d in tip- \';M|'IH of Sciences in Philadelphia and the 



-tanic;,! <; ; irdcn. 



Chi l' 1 in i -1 1 traveled over part of the 



route from ('lark'.s Kork t< the Vellowslotic and the plants 



which he collected were taken to Kuropc. determined by Hooker 



and distributed. At an earlier date, we have a record of his 



tatlOD of the MigSOUri b'iver region iii the 



:i which he lists a number of phints common to Montana. 



