. I have still at Fort Vancouver a good bun- 
-. dle of plants, perhaps about seventy spe- 
. cies, which l try to send, through 
Mr. Garry, overland this spring, for publi- 
cation, with Mosses and Sea-weeds, so that 
your Flora may be as complete as possible. 
At the Sandwich Islands a violent rheuma- 
tic fever prevented me from venturing at 
MR. DOUGLAS' SECOND VISIT TO THE COLUMBIA. 
its entrance, I had the pleasure to meet 
my old ship the Eagle, and old friend, 
Lieutenant Grave, R. N., who handed me 
a parcel from Soho Square, containing the 
second and third parts of the Flora Bo- 
reali- Americana ! Singular indeed it was 
that I should receive this, just in the nick 
of time, for had it not been for a kind un- 
all to the hills during my short stay, and I favourable wind, which obliged my vessel 
sat and fretted enough about it! I have 
indeed had some hard work since I quitted 
England, of which I- occasionally feel the 
effects, particularly in cold weather. Anxi- 
ous that no time should be lost, I sailed 
from Montérey for those islands in an Ame- 
rican vessel of forty-six tons burden! and 
had a passage of only nineteen days. What 
would have been thought, forty years ago, 
of passing over more than half of the great 
basin of the Pacific in such a craft? If 
steam-boats and rail-roads are not in our 
way, we, poor wanderers, must take what 
offers, sometimes good and sometimes bad. 
my way to this river, and not far from 
forwarduess, and hn of h 1 
in my ** Icones Plantarum." 
Of the living b of California, introduced to the 
Horticultural Society, besides the species of Pine, 
may be oon the following, which have cii. 
ed in the Chiswick — or - published by 
Professor n and others 
Ki 
J appear 
PLANTS INTRODUCBD BY MR. DOUGLAS, IN 1834. 
ae glandulo- ^ Lasthenia glab 
ptosiphon ahaa: 
- densiflorus. 
Audibertn incana. fr EET 
Limnanthes Douglasii. 
T s lhift g 
Bartonia am 
— € a. 
ES qe ce 
MAL 
—— —- densiflorus. 
- splendens - latifolius. 
o Yenustus ——— leptoph llus. 
Calliprora lutea. nanu 
Chelone centranthifolia 
Collinsia bicolor 
Cyclobotlirya Mie. 
Bon m 
Nemophila insignis, 
CEnothera densiflora. 
tenella, var. 
albiflora 
Oxyura cu yanitkedióidoi. 
Phacelia tanacetifolia. 
Pentstemon digitalifolium. O 
—— staticefolium. 
ign tex Californicum. 
however, introduced by 
Mr. Collie.) 
"Trifolium fucatum. 
Triteleia laxa. 
to go considerably out of her way, I should 
have missed her, and of course.lost the 
pleasure of a sight of the Flora. I can- 
not really express how much I am obliged 
to you for writing to me. re not 
for your letters, and the information they 
convey, I should be utterly without news, 
for nobody else has sent me any. 
I left in California my friend Dr. Coulter, 
who will not, I trust, quit that country till 
he has accomplished every thing, for he is 
zealous and very talented. To De Can- 
dolle, who is his old tutor, he sends all his 
collections; and who can wonder at his 
giving him the preference? Dr. Coulter 
expects to be in England in the autumn of 
1833; I have given him a letter of intro- 
duction to you. 
River Columbia, Oct. 24, 1832. 
This day brings me another proof of your 
goodness, for Dr. M‘Loughlin, Direétor 
of the Hudson’s Bay Company, as soon as 
he learned of my arrival, kindly sent down 
the river to me several packages, among 
which was your ‘friendly letter of July, 
1831. Every thing you say gives me infi- 
nite pleasure, and adds to my comfort. I 
know not how to express my gratitude 
more earnestly than I did in the letter I 
wrote to you last night, to perform which 
I sat up till three o’clock this morning. I 
shall, without fail, replace your lost speci- 
mens of Pines ; they were all plunged in _ 
warm water, that their leaves might not fall 
off, a mode I always adopt with Cape Heaths 
—but I fear they may have been heated 
or jumbled about in the vessel. I am glad 
you have set Mr. Drummond on his legs 
again, and hope he will do well. I shall 
! This alludes to the botanical j ys of Mr. 
Drummond in Louisiana and Texas, of which an ac- 
