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it may come to pass in tlie course of the autumn. — I am, Dear Sir, your 

 most faithful and humble servant, D. Douglas. 

 To Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



Afterwards wrote to Mr. McLoughlin and all my kind friends at Fort 

 Vancouver, respecting my articles going by the ship. Mr. Work obligingly 

 undertook to see my box and articles landed safe, and Mr. Conolly hand- 

 somely presented me with 12 feet of tobacco (better than 2 lb.) to assist me 

 in my travels, during their absence at the sea. Being as it were the 

 currency of the country and particularly scarce, 1 esteemed it invaluable, 

 as it will enable me to have guides and other services performed more 

 wiUingly. On their departure at noon, after changing the paper of my 

 plants, I now proceeded to extract from my note-book the following : 



(98) Phlox sp. ; stem shrubby, pubescent ; leaves opposite, revolute, 

 the base dilated, smooth ; calyx glaucous ; flowers white and rose colour ; 

 very large and fragrant, in partially shady woods at the junction of the 

 Spokane River ; this may only prove a variety of Phlox speciosa, but is 

 nevertheless a desirable plant, much stronger, larger flower, and more 

 profuse. 



(99) Pentstemon sp. ; stem smooth, white, rarely exceeding a foot high ; 

 leaves opposite, sessile, serrate, lanceolate; flowers small, white; sterile 

 filament naked, short ; inside of the calyx pubescent ; a beautiful interest- 

 ing species, has some afiinity to P. alhidus of Nuttall ; plentiful on rooky 

 situations, near the Cinqpoil Eiver and on the rocks at the Stony Island 

 on the Columbia. 



(100) Pentandria, Monogynia, annual ; calyx deeply five-cleft, woolly, 

 segments linear, with a bractea about the size of the segments ; corolla 

 funnel-form, very long, spreading ; stamens same length as the corolla ; 

 stigma three-cleft ; flowers bright scarlet ; leaves alternate, pinnate, some- 

 what succulent ; stem smooth, branching, 2 to 3 feet high ; a most beautiful 

 plant, with a great profusion of flowers ; plentiful from Kettle Falls for 

 the distance of three hundred miles further down, on dry light soils. 



(101) Allium sp. ; perennial ; leaves plain ; flowers faint purple and 

 white ; a low plant, 6 to 10 inches high ; abundant on a low sandy point 

 at the junction of the Spokane River. 



(102) Linum Lewisii,^ perennial ; on all dry elevated open places 

 plentiful, and in individual plants under the shade of solitary pines. 



(103) Chrysanthemum sp. ; leaves obovate (stem leaves, bidentate), 

 wooUy on the under side ; this has some affinity to one found on the 

 coast last year ; plentiful in all gravelly soils. Observed Phlox Sabinii^ 

 in great abundance in blossom, and although I secured plenty of it last 

 year, I coidd not help laying in a dozen more ; also Viburnum sp., with 

 white flowers and berries, so plentiful near the coast. 



(104) Silene (?) perennial ; flowers white ; leaves opposite, linear- 

 lanceolate, entire, smooth ; a slender plant, seldom more than a foot 

 in height ; in gravelly soils ; rare. 



1 Linum perenne, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 146. 



" Phlox specioaa var. Sabini, A. Gray, Syn. PI. N. Am. ii. i. p. 134. 



