1825, MAY. PLANTS COLLECTED 117 



Mimulus luteus, on the edge of pools and rills ; very abundant. S. 



(156) Rubus sp. ; petals long, white ; leaves ternate, glabrous, serrate ; 

 stems covered with short hooked prickles, red where exposed to the sun ; 

 fruit longish, black and not unpleasant ; a strong rambling shrub, abundant 

 on dry sandy places near the river. S. 



May 5th. Obtained the following Gramineae, &c. 



(157) Bromus sp., annual (?) ; in sandy soil, banks of rivers. 



(158) (?), a fine grass, whole plant glaucous ; 18 inches to 2 feet 



high ; perennial ; plentiful in the same places. 



(159) Gramineae ; perennial ; same situation. 



(160) Scirpus sp., perennial ; in and on the margins of still ponds. 



(161) Melica (?) sp. ; same place. 



(162) Scirpus sp., perennial ; moist plains. 



(163) Carex sp., perennial; abundant on alluvial plains. 



(164) Pentandria, Monogynia ; stigma trifid ; a very handsome shrub, 

 6 to 12 feet high, abundant in all sizes on the edges of woods and rivers. 

 May prove a Rhamnus, not unlikely R. alnifolia. 



(165) Potentilla sp., perennial; flowers yellow; a fine plant; 12 to 

 18 inches high ; plentiful on dry gravelly soils. S. 



Geum sp., perennial ; probably the same as before. 



(166) Chrysanthemum (?) sp., perennial; flowers yellow; dry, light, 

 or gravelly soils ; plentiful. 



(167) Juncus sp., perennial ; wet natural meadows ; plentiful. 



(168) What I formerly suspected, before expansion, to be a Spiraea, 

 now Pentandria, Monogynia ; 6 inches to a foot high ; plentiful in dry 

 gravelly soils. 



Friday, May 6th. Rain during the night and early in the morning. 

 Employed drying paper, turning specimens, and fixing my new tent ; in 

 the evening laid in the following plants, collected two miles east on the 

 north side of the river : 



Cynoglossum sp. , perennial ; same as before. 



(169) Gramineae, annual ; abundant in open places, in rich soil at edges 

 of woods, &c. 



(170) Rhus sp., a small upright shrub 2 to 4 feet high in low woods 

 and plains, in dry gravelly soil ; flowers faint yellow. 



(171) Diadelphia, annual (?) ; dry places, under the shade of Pteris 

 aquilina 1 ; abundant. 



(172) Geranium sp., perennial ; flowers purple ; dry meadows ; 

 plentiful. 



(173) Umbelliferae, perennial ; partially shaded woods in dry soil. 

 (173 [bis]) Pentandria, Digynia ; leaves radical, orbicular ; petioles and 



nerves hirsute ; calyx five-cleft, green at the teeth ; petals small, white, 

 revolute ; filaments long ; perennial ; Menzies Island ; plentiful. 



(174) Geum sp., annual ; flowers small, yellow; 6 to 10 inches high ; 

 banks of river, in sandy soil ; abundant. 



(175) Rumex sp., perennial ; a strong plant, plentiful in all moist 

 grounds in open places ; a very strong species. 



1 Pteridium aquilinum, Christensen, Ind. Fil. p. 591. 



