150 DOUGLAS' JOURNAL 



an entire plain and no commodious place for camping, I was urged to exert 

 myself to endeavour to react tlie Cow-a-lidsk, wkicli I accomplished at 

 sundown, being greatly fatigued. My track was along tte foot of Mount 

 St. Helens of Vancouver, which lay a little to the north-east. At Schachan- 

 away's or the chief of the Chenook tribe's house I learned he had just 

 returned from a trading visit from other parts and had brought with him 

 a bag of potatos, flour, a little molasses, and rum, of all of which I had 

 a portion and a comfortable night's lodging. A small boat had been 

 lent to him, which I considered fortunate, as it enabled me to proceed 

 without delay. 



On the lith 1 had breakfast and was on my route before five o'clock 

 in the morning. This is a large river, 150 to 200 yards wide in many 

 parts, very deep and rapid, the current running more than six miles 

 an hour in many parts. At mid-afternoon camped on a small woody 

 island at its mouth, where it joins the Columbia, fifty miles from the 

 ocean. Being high water when I put in, the boat grounded at ebbtide ; 

 not having strength enough to slide her along on the sand, 1 had to wait 

 longer in the morning than 1 would have otherwise done. At six in the 

 morning of the 15th I proceeded up the Columbia with a freshening 

 breeze of wind, my blanket and cloak serving as sails. I arrived again 

 at Fort Vancouver at half-past eleven at night, being absent twenty- 

 five days, during which I experienced more fatigue and misery, and 

 gleaned less than in any trip I have had in the country. 



Collected the following plants : — 



(500) Monoecia, annual ; male flowers small ; anther yellow ; leaves 

 alternate, ovate, entire, scabrous ; capsule two-celled, two-seeded ; 

 seeds oblong ; this plant 1 found early in spring, destitute of leaves, with 

 perfect seeds on the withered stalks of last year ; plentiful near villages 

 and banks of rivers. 



(501) Cerastium sp. ; annual ; stem prostrate ; flowers small, white ; 

 on the sandy shores of rivers ; plentiful. 



(502) Artemisia sp. ; perennial ; tall, .3 to 4 feet high, erect and rarely 

 branching ; a fine species ; banks of the Cow-a-lidsk Kiver ; rarer than 

 most other species. 



(503) Oenothera sp. ; biennial (?) ; leaves lanceolate, sessile, some- 

 what dentate ; calyx pubescent ; flowers very large, yellow ; capsule 

 large, four-grooved ; difierent from (402) ; on the banks of rivers in 

 sandy soil ; rather rare. 



(504) Portulaca sp. ; annual ; creeping ; on sandy shores of rivers 

 and aU low soils. 



(505) Syngenesia sp. ; perennial ; flowers yellow ; abundant on the 

 margins of lakes and rivers and in all low damp grounds. 



(506) Gramineae, annual ; a curious fine grass in seed ; rare ; on 

 the banks of rivers. 



(507) Donia (?) sp. ; annual ; abundant on all dry elevated gravelly 

 plains ; this 1 think I found a few starved specimens of early in the 

 season at the Falls of the Columbia. 



(508) Miinulus sp. ; leaves opposite, sessile, linear-lanceolate, min- 



