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pubescent ; petak toothed ; a more straggling plant than linearis ; less 

 viscid ; flowers larger, faint pink colour ; found in conjunction with it in 

 all sandy soils on the banks of rivers. 



(85) Myosotis sp. ; perennial ; leaves alternate, sessile, linear, hirsute ; 

 stem equally so ; only one plant I could find for the present ; flowers 

 small, white. 



Friday, 26th. — At daylight went on a trip to the hills south of my 

 residence. Very warm, thermometer 86° at noon. I felt so much fatigued 

 and overpowered with the heat that I sat down under the shade of Thuya 

 occidentalis in a valley near a small spring, where I fell asleep and did not 

 wake till 4 p.m. As I was then twenty miles from home, I would have 

 taken up my lodgings for the night ; but as Mr. Dease would feel anxious 

 about me I hastened home, which took me six hours, the road being 

 mountainous and rugged. Mr. D. had just given orders to send some 

 Indians in search of me in the morning, thinking something had befallen 

 me, when I made my appearance, and on informing him of my delay he 

 laughed heartily. Killed a female curlew and a small male pheasant ; 

 the latter too much destroyed for preserving. 



(86) Pentandria, Monogynia ; calyx five-partite, acute ; corolla five- 

 partite, obtuse ; leaves verticiUate, linear ; a slender annual plant, 3 to 

 9 inches high ; on gravelly soils ; rare. Observed Pinus balsamea i 

 plentiful on the mountains. 



Saturday and Sunday, 27th and 28th. — Weather cold, raw, and 

 unpleasant ; high winds, with showers of hail and rain. On Sunday 

 made a short turn up the south bank of the Columbia, but found 

 nothing difierent from what I have already seen. In the course of th& 

 day I observed Rubus (sp. 109 of 1825) in flower, the shrubs much smaller 

 than in the lower country. Another species just coming into blossom, 

 which I think is not in the collection. Also a second evergreen species, 

 and gathered some better specimens of Saxifraga than were collected 

 some days ago. 



Monday and Tuesday, 2Qth and SOth. — 



(87) Prunus sp. ; flowers white, in a long raceme ; fragrant, resembling 

 Crataegus ; leaves ovate, smooth, serrate ; a small tree, and in dry light 

 soils a low shrub, frequenting rocky situations on the subalpine hiUs ; 

 plentiful. 



(88) Gnaphalium sp. ; perennial ; flowers small, white, in a corymb ; 

 leaves alternate, Hnear-lanceolate ; a low plant, 6 inches to 18 high ; on 

 all hiUy, light gravelly soils. 



(89) Umbelliferae, perennial ; flowers white ; leaves ternate, three- 

 lobed, smooth, dentate ; in low moist ground, near springs and rivulets, 

 in shady places ; rare. 



(90) Lupinus sp. ; perennial ; leaves digitate ; leaflets seven to 

 thirteen, sUky on both sides ; flowers beautiful blue ; this does not 

 appear to differ much from one found last year so abundant around 

 Fort Vancouver ; abundant in all light soils. 



(91) Gramineae, perennial ; on low dry soil. 



' Ahies balsamea. Mast, in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. p. 189. 



