34 Expedition to the 



of veneration by the savages. Bijeau assured us he had re- 

 peatedly taken beads and other ornaments from these springs 

 and sold them to the same savages, who had thrown them in. 



A large and much frequented road passes the springs and 

 enters the mountains, running to the north of the high Peak. 

 It is travelled principally by the bisons, someiimes also by 

 the Indians who penetrate here to the Columbia. 



The men who had been left at the horse camp, about a 

 mile below the springs, had killed several deer, and had a 

 plentiful supply of provisions. Here we dined; then mount- 

 ing our horses proceeded towards the encampment of the 

 main body, where we arrived a little after dark, having com- 

 pleted our excursion within the time prescribed. 



Among the plants collected in this excursion, several ap- 

 pear to be undescribed. Many of them are strictly alpine, 

 being confined to the higher parts of the mountain, above the 

 commencement of snow. 



Most of the trees which occur on any part of the moun- 

 tain are evergreen, consisting of several species of abies, 

 among which may be enumerated the balsam fir, (A. bfilsa- 

 mea^Ph.') the hemlock, white, red, and black spruce, (A. CU' 

 nadensis. A. alba, A. rubra and A. nigra^) the red cedar, and 

 common juniper, and a few pines. One of these, which appears 

 to have been hitherto unnoticed in North America, has, like 

 the great white or Weymouth pine, five leaves in a fascicle, 

 but in other respects there is little resemblance between 

 them. The leaves are short and rather rigid, the sheathes 

 which surround their bases, short and lacerated; the stro- 

 biles erect, composed of large unarmed scales, being some- 

 what smaller than those of P. rigida^ but similar in shape, 

 and exuding a great quantity of resin. The branches which 

 are covered with leaves chiefly at the ends, are numerous 

 and recurved, inclining to form a dense and large top: they 

 are also remarkably flexile, feeling in the hand somewhat 

 like those of the Dirca/>f//«5'^ri4-. From this circumstance, 



