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taste ; flowers April, fruit in July ; habitat banks of the Columbia near 

 the ocean. S. 



(3) Gaultheria Shallon ; called by the natives ' Salal,' not ' Shallon ' 

 as stated by Pursh, figure and description good; abundant (as is 

 very correctly observed by Mr. Menzies) in all the pine forests, 

 more luxuriant where partially shaded, particularly so near the ocean. 

 I have since seen it as far as 40 miles above the Grand Kapids of the 

 Columbia, but as it leaves the coast it becomes less vigorous; was in 

 flower when I arrived and continued so till August and in fruit. 

 Bears abundantly, fruit good, indeed by far the best in the country ; 

 should the seeds now sent home rise, as I hope they may, I have little 

 doubt but it will ere long find a place in the fruit garden as well as in the 

 ornamental. In my walks I have frequently seen the young plants on 

 the stumps of trees 4 to 10 feet from the ground and on dead wood growing 

 luxuriantly. It might be worth mentioning to Mr. Munro to try it in 

 rich decomposed vegetable soil, being its natural way of propagating.] 

 I am sorry that I have it not in my power to send specimens of the fruit 

 in spirits with the ship ; that put up when on my last journey to the 

 ocean was by some evil disposed person stolen for the sake of the spirits 

 they were in ; I have every reason to think it was some of the Eroque 

 Indians belonging to the establishment. ; It flowers the whole summer 

 through and the fruit is ripe in July and continues bearing until checked 

 by the frost ; thick woods and banks of rivers. S. 



(4) Vaccinium sp. ; flowers small, green tinged with faint yellow ; 

 deciduous ; 4 to 6 feet high ; in shady places ; leaves ovate ; fruit 

 globular, about the size of a common pea, scarlet, transparent, very juicy 

 with agreeable acid, ripe in June and July. S. 



(5) Vaccinium sp. ; deciduous ; corolla faint purple at the base, mouth 

 green ; leaves obovate ; fruit globular, blackish-purple colour, a little 

 longer than the former, agreeable acid ; a shrub 10 to 16 feet high, in 

 the same situation as the former species. This is not so prolific ; fruit 

 ripe in June and July. S. 



(6) Allied to Xylosteum 1 ; flowers in pairs, fragrant, golden-yellow ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate, acute ; berry in pairs surrounded by the calyx ; 

 flowers in April, fruit ripe in July ; 14 to 18 feet high ; in rocky situations 

 and gravelly places, shores of Columbia, near the ocean ; a stately and 

 beautiful shrub. S. 



(7) Ribes sanguineum (?) ; flowers pink or rose colour, inside of the 

 petals white, anthers white in long racemes ; a most beautiful shrub ; 

 in open, dry places ; 7 to 10 feet high. This exceedingly handsome 

 plant is abundant on the rocky shores of the Columbia and its branches, 

 and in such places produces a great profusion of flowers but little fruit. 

 In the shady woods the flowers are less numerous and beautiful but 

 produce more fruit. I am happy to send a good portion of its seed ; 

 flowers in April ; fruit ripe in August. S. 



(8) Cardamine sp., annual ; in wet places and creeks of the Columbia, 

 abundant. 



1 Lonicera, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 5. 



