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solitary, one flower; leaves lanceolate, smooth, entire; in low wet 

 ground ; this is not far removed from Menyanthes. 



(55) Yicia sp. ; perennial ; flowers large, purple ; a very showy plant ; 

 plentiful under the shade of soUtary pines and outskirts of the woods. 

 Observed a species of Ribes very different from any yet in my possession, 

 but being not in blossom left it for the present until my return. The 

 scenery picturesque in the extreme. 



Wednesday, lOfA.— Rose at daylight and had my horses saddled, and 

 being desirous of making the most of my time I took no breakfast further 

 than a little dried meat and a drink of water, and proceeded on my journey 

 at five o'clock. At twelve noon reached a small rapid river called Barriere 

 River by my guides, which took up an hour in crossing. As there were no 

 Indians near the place, we had to choose either making a raft or to swim. 

 As the latter was the easier method, and all of us good water-men, we 

 unsaddled the horses and drove them in. They all went over weU except 

 the last, which entangled itself by the hind legs among some brushwood 

 and struggled much for a considerable time ; fortunately the wood gave 

 way and he reached the shore much better than I had any reason to ex- 

 pect. I made two trips on my back, one with my paper and pen, the other 

 with my blanket and clothes— holding my property above water in my 

 hands. My guides made three trips each with the saddles and provisions. 

 Breadth of river 30 yards ; heat of the water 40°. During this time there 

 was a very heavy shower of hail, and being nearly half-an-hour in the water 

 I was so much benumbed with cold that I was under the necessity of kindling 

 a fire. After handing my guides a pipe of tobacco and making ourselves 

 comfortably warm, I continued my route through a delightful undulating 

 country tiU three o'clock, when I began to ascend a second ridge of moun- 

 tains, which I crossed and camped at dusk at their base in a thick woody 

 vaUey near a small stream of water on the dry rocky ground. The small 

 beautiful species of Phlox which I found some time since on the Columbia 

 gave the whole open places a fine efiect. Flower changeable, white, blue, 

 and fine pink colours. 



(56) Bioecia (?) ; annual ; calyx none ; corolla three to four cleft ; 

 filaments minute ; anthers sessile on the centre of each petal ; no female 

 flower ; a most singular-jointed, leafless, succulent parasite on a small 

 species of pine, belonging to the second section of Pursh ; different from 

 any yet in my possession, but I regret that it could not be found in 

 perfection ; like Viscum it does not survive the death of its supporter ; 

 abundant on all the slender twigs, and particularly so where the pines are 

 in a light sandy dry soil ; I took it first for a species of lichen, and passed it 

 as such, thinking it already collected. 



(57) belongs to the same genus and may prove only a variety of the 

 same species, this being a much stronger plant of a darker brown colour, 

 and is uniformly found on a different pine, which I take to be Pinus 

 resinosa ; not in blossom ; in every other respect agrees with the pre- 

 ceding. In crossing the moim.tain just mentioned I killed seven black 

 partridges, the same as the one preserved two weeks since. In the ovary 

 of the females thirteen to seventeen eggs ; found one nest with seven 

 eggs about the size of common pigeon's egg, bright brownish-dun colour. 



