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denticulate leaves ; flowers appear to be red. Returned at dusk, 

 drenched in wet. Collected the following : 



(49) Lupinus sp. ; perennial ; leaflets five to nine, equally silky on 

 both sides ; seldom more than one to three leaves on the stem ; flowers 

 pale blue, upper lip in the centre white ; a small plant, 10 to 16 inches 

 high, in open woods and banks of rivers ; plentiful ; this has some 

 resemblance to one collected last year. 



(50) Gymnocaulis uniflora 1 of Nuttall ; on moist shady places near 

 the Kettle Falls, on the Columbia. In the same place I picked up Ptero- 

 spora andromedea, measuring 4J feet high. 



(51) Senecio sp., perennial; leaves lanceolate-serrate, cauline, some- 

 what amplexicaul ; flowers white ; a strong plant, 2 to 3 feet high ; on 

 the plains ; abundant. 



(52) Atragene sp. ; flowers blue ; margins of rivulets, among thick 

 brushwood ; plentiful. 



(53) Carex sp. ; female, a small plant, 4 to 6 inches high ; on elevated 

 grounds ; plentiful. 



Collected also species of Musci, one Hypnum, one Polytrichum, one 

 Bartramia, and Bryum. 



Sunday, 7th. Employed laying in what were collected yesterday, 

 changing the paper of others, drying my clothes, &c. Pleasant. 

 Maximum heat 61 ; minimum 47. 



Monday, May 8th. Weather cold and raw, cloudy, with showers of 

 hail. Made a short walk to a neighbouring meadow, but found nothing 

 different from before. 



Tuesday, 3th. Left the Kettle Falls on the Columbia River at 10 A.M., 

 with two horses, one carrying my provisions, which consisted of buffalo 

 dried meat, a little tea and sugar, my blanket and paper ; the other for 

 carrying me over the bad places of the way. I had for my guides two 

 young men, sons of a Mr. Jaques Raphael Finlay, a Canadian Sauteur, 

 who is at present residing in the abandoned establishment of Spokane, in 

 which direction I was going. Mr. Finlay being a man of extensive infor- 

 mation as to the appearance of the country, animals, and so on, Mr. Dease 

 kindly gave me a note to him requesting that he would show me anything 

 that he deemed curious in the way of plants, &c. Took my departure in a 

 northerly direction over the mountains, towards the Spokane River, distant 

 about 100 or 110 miles. As my path, running along the skirt of the moun- 

 tains, was at this season very bad and scarcely passable, the numerous 

 mountain rivulets being so much swollen by the melting of the snow, and 

 the meadows being overflowed or so soft that the horses could not pass, 

 obliged me to make a more circuitous route than if it had been later in 

 the season. Camped under a large pine on a rising bluff in the centre 

 of a large plain at four o'clock, having made about twenty-seven miles. 

 After hobbling the horses, took a walk around my camp, where I found 

 (54) Pentandria monogynia, perennial ; calyx five-cleft, obtuse ; corolla 

 five, narrower than the calyx ; stigma bifid ; flowers white ; half the inside 

 of the corolla covered with strong yellow hairs and purple veins ; peduncle 

 1 Aphyllon uniflorum, Ind. Kew. fasc. ii. p. 1076. 



