Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... CATALOGUE OF SOME OF THE MORE RARE OR VALUABLE PLANTS Discovered in tht Ntighbourhood of St. Louis and on Missouri. Leersia Lenticularis, Woods, American Bottom, St. Louis. Aristida Fallens, Hills on the Merrimac. Stipa Juncea, Prairies, Aricaras to the Mandans. Membrunacea, Fort Maudan. Probably not a Stipa. Aira Brevifulia, Great Prairie. Festuca Spicata, common on the Missouri. Cynosurus secundus, Mississippi bluffs. Hordeum Jubatum, valleys near the Aricaras. *Allionia Ovata, banks of the Missouri, above the Big Bend. (bluffs near the Aricara village. Htrsuta, a Plantago Lagopus, Alluvion of the Missouri, common. EJongata, near the Maha village. Eleagnus Argentea, bluffs near the Mandan nation. Hippophae Argentea, Mahas, Platte, Ottoes, Missouri. Pulmonaria Sibirica, high up the Merrimac river. Laitceolata, opposite the Aricara village. * These three species of Allionia together with the two species of Bartonia, have the singular property of flowering in the night: the flowers burst forth just at sun-set, and perish at its rising. Baischia Canescens, prairie about St. Touis. ---- Gmelini, American Bottom, Illinois, Longiflora, first occurs near the mouth of the Platte, on ascending the Missouri. Onosmodium Molle, about St. Louis. Dodecatheon Meadia, prairie behind St. Louis. Phacelia Fimbriata, at Point L'Abbadie, on the Missouri, tvitk white flowers. Cynoglossum Glomeratum, Big Bend, Missouri. Solatium Heterandrum, about the Aricara village. Ribes Aureum, Little Cedar Island, Missouri. Saltola Depressa, on the Missouri, near the mouth of Knife River. Hydrocotyle Ambigua, rocks- on the Mississippi, near Herculaneum. Selinum acaule, on the alluvion of the Missouri, from the river Naduet to the Mahas...."
