1826, JUNE. PLANTS COLLECTED 185 



(115) Pentandria, Monogynia ; annual ; corolla five-cleft, undulate ; 

 anthers sessile, enclosed within the orifice ; pistil one-third the length of 

 the tube ; tube long ; flowers white, in an umbel surrounded by five 

 lanceolate bracteae ; very fragrant during the night, leaves opposite, ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire ; stem brown and glutinous ; a low but wide-spreading 

 plant, a foot to 18 inches high ; this or a second species came under my 

 notice last year at the Great Falls ; in dry sandy soils, a little below the 

 Stony Islands, on the south side of the Columbia. 



(116) Decandria, Trigynia, perennial ; calyx five-leaved ; leaves linear, 

 acute ; corolla five petals ; petals linear, obtuse, double the breadth of 

 the calyx ; leaves opposite, subulate, dilated at the base ; stem jointed ; 

 flowers white ; 4 to 6 inches high ; in the sandy plains ; plentiful. 



(117) Eriogonum sp. ; suffruticose ; leaves oblong-ovate, tomentose 

 under, smooth above ; flowers small, bright yellow ; this may prove 

 E. sericeum 1 of Nuttall ; a low plant, 1 J to 2 feet high ; on the Stony 

 Islands and a few miles below it ; abundant ; a fine plant. 



(118) Pentandria, Monogynia ; calyx five-leaved ; corolla five-cleft, 

 round ; style bifid, pubescent at the base, filaments exserted ; leaves 

 pinnate, pubescent ; stem creeping, hirsute ; root creeping ; flowers 

 purple ; a straggling perennial plant, frequenting crevices of rocks ; 

 grows very strong on moist rocks. 



(119) Cruciferae, perennial ; stem smooth, branching ; leaves alternate, 

 sessile, linear, smooth ; flowers yellow ; plentiful at the Priest Rapids. 



(120) Eriogonumsp. ; flowers yellow ; may prove a variety of E. found 

 on the coast last year (not rare) at the Stony Islands, the only place 

 it came under my notice. 



I Thermometer in the shade 90 ; minimum 63. Having had little 

 sleep for the last five nights, I felt somewhat fatigued. I went to bed 

 earlier than usual, and shortly after dusk an Indian arrived from Fort 

 Vancouver with news of the arrival of a ship in the river, and brought 

 me letters and a small parcel of newspapers. I grasped the parcel eagerly 

 and tore it open, turning over my letters ; at last I found one in Mr. Goode's 

 handwriting ; all was right, j I thought one was from Mr. Sabine, but on 

 opening I found it from Mr. G. Immediately opened my note from Mr. 

 McLoughlin, who informed me he had kept what he conceived to be letters 

 from the Society until the people would return, not deeming it prudent to 

 risk them by the Indian. I had one from Mr. William Booth, which with 

 Mr. G.'s is all that have as yet come to hand. Never in my life did I feel in 

 such a state ; an uneasy, melancholy, but pleasing sensation stole on my 

 mind, with an inordinate longing for the remaining part, and although I 

 did not hear directly from my friends, I now for once in my life enjoy and 

 relish the luxury of hearing from England. I had letters from all my kind 

 friends on the coast, full of expressive hopes that my labours might be 

 amply rewarded. It is a circumstance worthy of notice that I should write 

 to England in the morning and receive letters on the same day, for in this 

 uninhabited distant land the post calls but seldom. | The express for the 

 coast with my letters had only left me six hours when the Indian arrived. 

 1 Eriogonum flavum, Benth. in DC. Prod. xiv. p. 8. 



