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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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acemosus, Pursh. Astragalus bisulcatus. Gray. (Plate L) Phaca lisulcata, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am., 1, p. 145,Specimens with mature fruit, of which I give a figure. Astragalus pectinatus, Dougl. Phaca pedinata, Hook., 1. c. 54. The ripe fruit is muchblunter and thicker than in Hookers figure. Astragalus filifolius, (Plate L) Phaca longifolia, Nutt.; Psordea longi/olia, Pursh. Thename longi/olius being preoccupied in Astragalus, this may take the more characteristic nameof A. filifolius. OxTTROPis Lamberti, Pursh. Various forms, doubtless including more than one of Nuttallsspecies. OxYTROPis SPLENDENS, Dougl. A most elegant plant, with its crowded silvery silky-villousfoliage and spikes, and deep blue corollas. It was gathered on the Chippewa river. Dbsmodium nudiplorum, DC. Lespedeza hirta, Ell. LupiNUS PUSILLUS, Pursh. LupiNUS PERENNis, Linn. SOPHORA SERICEA, Nutt. Thermopsis rhombifolia, Nutt.Gleditschia triacanthos, Linn. SCHRANKIA UNCINATA, Willd. Cerasus Virginiana, DC. BOTaMY—PLATEir
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:vKJSElTIUl\t DrvMlICATUI/r 3h^7iciM!t.id.l:t/i.fiii THE BOTANY OF THE ROUTE. 39 Geum Virginianum, Linn.Geum strictum, Ait.Geum triflorum, Pursh.Sanguisorba annua, Nutt.Cham^rhodos erecta. POTENTILLA NORVEGICA, LilHl. Potentilla paradoxa, Nutt. PoTENTiLLA Pennsylvanica, Linn. Potentilla Canadensis, Linn. Potentilla ansebina, Linn. Potentilla arguta, Pursh. Fragaria vesca, Linn. RUBUS STRIGOSUS, Miclix. RUBUS VILLOSUS, Ait. Rosa blanda. Ait.; Fort Clark. Neb. Crat^gds coccinea ; Fort Union, Neb. Ammania latifolia, Linn. Oenothera biennis, Linn. (Enothera albicaulis, Nutt. ffiNOTHEBA CORONOPIFOLIA, Torr. & Gray. (Enothera c^spitosa, Nutt. (Enothera serrulata, Nutt. Gaura coccinea, Nutt. CiRC^A lutetiana, Linn. Menzelia (Bartonia) ornata, Torr. & Gray. Echinoctstis lobata, Torr. & Gray. RiBES hirtellum, Michx.; fifty miles above Fort Union, Neb. Ribes rotundifolium, Michx. ■ RiBES FLORiDUM, LHer.; near Fort Union, Neb. RiBES AUREUM, Pursh.; one hundred miles above Fort Pier

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