186 DOUGLAS' JOURNAL 



Saturday, June lOth. — Morning cloudy; warm last night. I pored 

 over my two letters till after midnight, when I lay down on my mat. It 

 is needless to say, although I had not slept twelve hours for the five 

 preceding nights, this one I passed without as much as closing my eyes. 

 About noon I felt very unwell and did not deem it prudent to make much 

 exertion during the intensive heat of the day. Therefore I employed 

 myself mending some of my shoes and walked along the river in the after- 

 noon, where I collected as follows : 



(121) Lwpinus sp. ; annual ; small, hairy ; flowers blue and white ; 

 legume two-seeded ; 4 to 8 inches high, on the open barren plains ; this 

 is no doubt L. pusillus of Nuttall. 



(122) Diadelphia, perennial ; legume double-curved, many-seeded, 

 seeds small ; leaves pinnate, ovate, obtuse ; stem and leaves hispid ; 

 flowers purple and white ; a most beautiful low-spreading plant, 6 inches 

 to a foot high ; plentiful on dry gravelly soils. 



(123) Melilotus (?), perennial ; flowers white and blue ; this plant I saw 

 last year near the Great Falls on the Columbia, but in an imperfect state ; 

 abundant over all the plains. 



Sunday, llth. — Heavy rain during the night ; warm and clear. Turned 

 and arranged some plants. 



Monday, 12th. — Warm. Collected the following : 



(124) Polydelphia, annual ; calyx five-leaved, lanceolate ; petals obtusej 

 five ; stem white, smooth ; leaves amplexicaul, very rough ; capsule sessile, 

 long, one-celled ; seeds small and numerous ; flowers yellow (if I recollect, 

 a magnificent I plant of the same genus I found at the Great Falls last 

 year in blossom, but could obtain no perfect seeds of it) ; the present 

 is seen in little patches among Tigarea ^ and some species of Artemisia 

 on the dry sandy plain ; not very abundant. 



(125) Hexandria, Monogynia, annual; calyx four-partite; coroUafour 

 petals ; petals lanceolate-obtuse, two small (narrower) ; leaves digitate, 

 glaucous ; leaflet lanceolate, three to five ; flowers terminal stamens 

 exserted ; flowers yellow ; a plant 1 to 2^ feet high, frequenting dry 

 soils ; not unhandsome but has a very foetid burned-like scent. Found 

 abundance of Clarkia pulchella on the rising ground and laid in a few 

 specimens. 



(126) Cruciferae, annual ; this plant may prove only a variety of 

 No. 114, as there appears to be little difierence, except the present has 

 purple flowers and the leaves narrower and more sinuated, which situation 

 may affect ; on dry rocks ; a showy plant, floweriag in a thick close spike ; 

 4 to 10 feet high. At the junction of the WaUawaUah River with the 

 Columbia, I found on the high grounds a species of Lwpinus which I have 

 little doubt is Lupinus villosus, variable flowers, sometimes pale purple, 

 approaching to a dingy-yellow. Collected a few seeds of Phlox speciosa ; 

 this seems not to produce seeds in abundance ; probably the sudden 

 intensity of the suromer heat is too great. 



Tuesday, 13th. — High winds and heavy rains during the night ; I had 

 the greater part of my paper and aU my clothing wet, not a dry stitch to put 

 1 Purshia, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PI., i. p. 617. 



