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three to five lobed, dentate, rough ; a strong growing plant, 4 to 6 feet 

 high ; margins of pools and rivers ; abundant. 



(180) Senecio sp. ; perennial ; leaves lanceolate, serrate, smooth ; 

 flowers yellow ; 5 to 6 feet high ; frequenting the same places as the 

 former. 



Monday, 26th. As I had still time to spare and being somewhat 

 disappointed on my trip last week, I thought of making a second journey 

 to the same mountains in a different direction. On my guide being told 

 last night to be ready at daybreak, he instantly began to complain that the 

 fatigue of the former journey had weakened him so much that he did not 

 think he would be able to proceed. To-day he did not make his appearance 

 till 6 o'clock A.M., when he refused to go. He was certainly a little broken 

 down, but I saw nothing that would seriously injure him ; and I was on the 

 eve of giving him a little corporal chastisement to teach him that I was not 

 to pay him and not to have his services. He lost no time in making his 

 escape. I learned that the Young Wasp, the interpreter's son, who 

 accompanied me, had told him I was a great medicine-man, which is always 

 understood as a necromancer, or being possessed of or conversant with evil 

 spirits, and had the power of doing great wonders; and should he go with me, 

 if he did not do as I wanted, though very likely I did not kill him, he might 

 depend I would turn him into a grisly bear to run and live in the mountains, 

 and he should never see his wife again, which of course acted powerfully on 

 him. The boy was paid by his father according to the merit of his services. 

 I was detained till ten o'clock, when Mr. Black procured me another guide, 

 whom I took the more willingly as he was no smoker and at the time such 

 a knave, that no one would dare to steal from him ; and it is worthy of 

 notice that there has hardly ever been an instance of dishonesty known 

 when trust was placed in them by depositing property in their hands. 

 Proceeded along the north banks of the Wallawallah River, and then took 

 to the north branch, intending to touch on the range of mountains a little 

 more to the north from where I was last week. As my present journey is 

 through the same sort of country and climate as the preceding, I found 

 until I reached the mountains, which occupied better than two days, 

 but few plants that I had not seen before. I was more fortunate than 

 before, as the weather continued dry but oppressively warm. Maximum 

 heat 84 to 98 ; minimum 64, and on the mountains 31. 



Wednesday and Thursday, 28th, 29th. Continued my journey in the 

 mountains. Keached the snow on the evening of 28th ; camped at dusk. 

 As I saw that little different could be gleaned from what I had collected 

 before, I did not think it proper to make my stay long, particularly as it 

 was my wish to have a few days' collecting and drying seeds found on the 

 plains, against the coming of the people from the ocean, who are daily 

 expected. Therefore as I had got a few more species for the collection, 

 with a few papers of seeds, I left the mountains at mid-afternoon and 

 gained the Columbia on Saturday at nine in the morning, much worn 

 down and suffering great pain from violent inflammation of the eyes. 

 To read or write I cannot, but in the morning without pain. Collected 



as follows": 



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