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Verbena stricta . 
Xs. bastata . 
Gerardia purpurea . 
G, flava , 
G« erecta , 
G_. auriculata . 
G. quercifolia . 
Petalostemum candidum . 
Desmodium, \ ~ . 
Lesuedeza t J of varlous species. 
Euphorbia corollata. 
Gaura angustifolia . 
Typha latifolia . 
Cassia chamaecrista. 
C. marilandica. 
Monarda fiistulosa . 
Leptandra Virginica , 
Lythrum hyssopifolium , 
Pedicularis pallida , 
Gillenia stipulacea . 
Parnassia palustris . 
.G-en_tlana x ub£ia aulis> 
G_i ^u to qu Qfl Qra, 
Aim laAXLslAm, 
A zG .hs.mzs > xlgj&a, 
Ar t emisi a jiaudaia, 
£plyg ala ..y er.ticillat a 
Zjl ambig.ua, 
£* incarnata, 
Jjinum xigibum, 
Potentilla fruticosa . 
Psoralea floribunda. 
Boottia svlvestris . 
Plantago cordata . 
P. aristata . 
Cissus Canadensis . 
Chelone glabra. 
Angelica triauinata . 
Epilobium lincare . 
Lysimachia XS Y Q -l u t. a ., &c. 
Doubtless many other species came under our observation, 
but being so common in other parts of the Western country, 
I omitted to note them. 
In relation to the botany of the prairies, I have only to 
add a few remarks on the shrubs which are found among 
them; for although in the more open districts of this kind no 
ligneous or perennial stems are permitted to escape the rava¬ 
ges of the annual fires which sweep over them, yet on the 
margins of ’sloughs,’ and along the courses of the small 
streams which occasionally meander through them, clumps of 
bushes and clusters of shrubbery are always to be found. 
These ! roughs, 1 as they are called, furnish welcome retreats 
to grazing cattle, and sometimes to the traveler’s horse, from 
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