1825, JULY. PLANTS COLLECTED 135 



wliite ; leaves nearly round, partly entire, opposite, on short petioles ; stem 

 ■creeping ; in shady woods. 



(379) Philadelphus sp. ; flowers white, fragrant; I had not time to 

 examine it ; a fine small shrub, plentiful on hilly banks of the Columbia 

 above the Eapids, which may prove P. Lewisii of Pursh ; plentiful in 

 all outskirts of woods ; forms part of the underwood in the pine forest. 



(380) Sanicula (?) ; perennial; in dry gravelly woods, in partially 

 shady situations; flowers white; peduncle and calyx beset with brown 

 glands. S. 



(381) Neottia puhescens i ; in all shady pinewoods, in dry decomposed 

 vegetable soil ; abundant. 



(382) Sonchus sp., annual ; flowers bright blue ; plentiful in moist 

 meadows. 



(383) Gramineae, perennial ; in the edges of pools, moist meadows, 

 livers, &c. ; a strong grass. 



(384) Gramineae, perennial ; same situations ; a strong coarse grass ; 

 no animal will eat of this species. 



(385) Gramineae, perennial ; in the like places as the preceding ; no 

 animal wiU eat of it. 



(386) Ordbanche ludoviciana^ (Nuttall); on the alluvial plains of the 

 Columbia; parasitic on the roots of various grasses which have been burned 

 by the natives in the autumn for the purpose of afiording a tender herbage 

 in spring for their horses ; flowers white, mixed with rose colour, some- 

 times sulphur-yellow where very much shaded ; in very shady moist 

 places ; abundant. 



(387) Spiraea sp. capitata * (?) Pursh ; a handsome shrub, 5 to 10 

 feet high ; flowers white, pendulous, very large ; thrives luxuriantly 

 in all low places, moist woods, low valleys, near rivulets, in shady woods ; 

 this is one of the most magnificent plants of the wood ; seeds not yet ripe ; 

 get a large package of seeds. 



(388) Prunella sp. var. alha ; only one plant in low marshy grounds. 



(389) Bartsia (?) sp.,* annual ; flowers rose colour ; abundant in low 

 marshy ground. 



(390) Verbena sp., perennial ; stem erect, square, covered with rigid 

 hairs ; leaves opposite, ovate, acute, serrate, strongly nerved ; flowers 

 smaU, purple, 



(391) Lythrum sp., annual ; flowers rose colour ; margins of pools 

 and rivers. 



(392) Campanula sp., perennial; in all dry meadows and rocks, on 

 the banks of rivers. G. rotundifolia ? abundant. 



(393) Scutellaria sp., annual ; flowers blue ; in low, swampy grounds ; 

 abundant. 



(394) Veronica sp. ; scutellata ? annual ; in the like places ; also 

 abundant ; flowers blue. 



' Goodyera pubescens, Ind. Kew. faso. iii. p. 304. 



" Aphyllon Ivdovicianum, A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. i. p. 313. 



5 Neillia opulifoUa var. moUis, S. Wats. Bibl. lad. N. Am. Bot. p. 290. 



* In another MS. he has Pedicularis^ sp. 



