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(139) Gramineae, perennial ; 



(140) Gramineae, perennial ; 



(141) Gramineae, perennial. 



(142) Gramineae, perennial ; a fine tall grass. 



(143) Quercus sp. ; perennial ; small, 8 inches to a foot high ; also 

 on the plains, but rare. Very high south-west wind, producing such 

 a boisterous swell on the river that the canoes could not go to fish ; 

 no salmon caught for the last three days. Killed three small Arctomys, 

 two males and a female, 9 inches long, tail IJ inch long; on the back, 

 light grey with numerous small white spots ; belly same colour, but 

 destitute of the spots ; sides, legs, and lower part of the neck, of a 

 whitish colour ; nose and round the anus, light brown ; iris fine blue 

 purple-black. The female differs in no respect from the male, except 

 in size is a httle smaller. Burrows in the sands under brushwood and 

 lives on the leaves and fruit of Tigarea tridentata ^ and the leaves of 

 several species of Artemisia, both found on the plains. Having nothing 

 to eat, they with some boiled horseflesh formed my supper. I foimd 

 the former rancid or rather of a musty taste, probably from the bitter 

 strong-scented plants on which it feeds ; called by the Wallawallah and 

 Kyuuse Indians Limia. 



Thursday, 15th. — Very windy, with showers of rain ; at 4 a.m. started 

 on a walk to some rocky grounds on the opposite side of the Columbia ; 

 after taking a httle breakfast, the same as my supper last night, I proceeded. 

 Long before twelve o'clock I felt fatigued, as I could not get so much as a 

 mouthful of water. My eyes began to trouble me much, the wind blowing 

 the sand, and the sun's reflection from it is of great detriment to me. 

 Returned at four in the afternoon, fatigued. My eyes so inflamed and 

 painful that I can scarcely see distinctly an object ten yards distant. 

 Gathered a few more seeds of Phlox speciosa. 



(144) Myosotis sp. ; perennial ; stem hirsute ; calyx more so ; leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate, entire, smooth above, shghtly silky below ; flowers 

 white, with five yellow prominent nectaries surrounding the orifice ; 

 a fine low plant, 8 to 14 inches high ; on the banks of the Columbia, 

 a few miles below the junction of Lewis and Clarke's River ; rare. 



(145) Syngenesia sp. ; perennial ; smooth-branching and twiggy ; 

 leaves long, sessile, Unear, entire, smooth ; flowers fine pink colour ; 

 root and branches yield a viscid, nulky, bitter juice ; a foot to 18 

 inches high ; on the banks of rivers ; not very plentiful. 



(146) Opuntia ferox of Nuttall ; abundant on all dry rocky and sandy 

 soils and many times gives me great trouble picking the spines from 

 my feet ; flowers yellow ; style and stigma purple ; filament and anthers 

 yeUow. 



Friday, June \%th. — Wind more moderate, warm and pleasant ; 

 making preparations for a journey to the south on the Blue Mountains 

 and Grande Ronde, distant about 140 miles. Sent to the Indian camp 

 to inform my guide to be ready to-morrow at sunrise. Last night I was 

 much annoyed by a herd of rats, which devoured every particle of seed I 

 1 Purshia tridentata, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 309. 



