. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. CAMP ON QUAMASH FLATS. IO41 A party of Chopunnish, who had overtaken us a few miles above, halted for the night with us, and mentioned that they {p. 312) too had come down to
. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. CAMP ON QUAMASH FLATS. IO41 A party of Chopunnish, who had overtaken us a few miles above, halted for the night with us, and mentioned that they {p. 312) too had come down to hunt in the Hats, though we fear they expect we will provide for them during their stay. The country through which we passed is generally free from stone, extremely fertile, and supplied with timber, con- sisting of several species of fir, long-leaved pine, and larch. The undergrowth is choke-cherry near the water-courses, and scattered through the country are black alder, a large species of red root [?] now in bloom, and a plant resembling the pawpaw in its leaf, bearing a berry with five valves of a deep purple color. There were also two species of sumach, the purple haw {Viburnumpauciflorum\ seven-bark, service- berry, gooseberry, the honeysuckle bearing a white berry [Syjnphoricarpiis raceniosiis\, and a species of dwarf pine, ten or twelve feet high, which might be confounded with a young pine of the long-leaved species {Pimis pondcrosa], except that the former bears a cone of a globular form, with small scales, and that its leaves are in fascicles of two,' resembling in length and appearance those of the common pitch-pine. Wc also observed two species of wild rose {Rosa mitkana and R. sayi?\ both quinquepetalous, both of a damask-red color, and similar in the stem; but one of them is as large as the common red rose of our gardens; its leaf is somewhat larger than that of the other species of wild rose ; and the apex [^zV—read apples, /. e., the haws or mature fruits],
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