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of Veratrum Eschscholtzi. This species is very large and is ap- 
parently much more closely related to the European I”. album 
than to V. wivide. There can be little doubt that its medicinal 
properties will prove to be similar and equal with those of the 
other species, named above. Itis exceedingly abundant through- 
out this entire region and anna supplies sufficient for the entire 
world could be here collected at a moderate price. Sufficient 
ey for experimental purposes was obtaine 
From Glacier I went direct to Seattle, where the United States 
Food and Drug Laboratory was visited, and where two days were 
spent at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Here an attempt 
was made to procure from the managers of the Oregon State Ex- 
hibit donations of economic material, especially of cultivated fruits. 
At this exhibition I was impressed with the very great beauty of 
furniture made from the trunk of the Oregon laurel-tree (Usdbel- 
lularia californica). Such furniture somewhat resembles that 
made from Honduras mahogany-wood but is even more beauti- 
ful. rees of sufficient size for such use must be very old. It 
is said that the supply will last but a few years and it would seem 
that steps should be taken to provide for future supplies. At 
this place I obtained information as to the best region to visit for 
the study and collection of Rkamnus Purshiana or cascata sag- 
rada, our most important indigenous drug. had no oppor- 
where again I had United States Laboratory duties to perform. 
I remained there only long enough to perform those duties, 
although I made one excursion into the hills back of the city. 
The country here had recently been cut over, preparatory to 
urning, and I obtained but little. This included, however, 
specimens of Rhus diversifolia, in formaldehyde solution, for our 
poison collection, fine fruiting specimens of a wild cherry, and a 
From Portland, I proceeded to Toledo, Ore., near the mouth 
of the Yaquina River, and within a few miles of the Pacific coast, 
where a half day was spent in collecting what the region afforded 
This included fine specimens of stems, rhizomes, and bulbous 
bases of the Tule-plant, Scirpus occidentalis, These stems consti- 
