…the broad leave shrub which grows something like the quill wood but has no joints, the leaf broad and deeply indented, the bark p[e]als hangs on the stem and is of a yelowish brown 〈yellow〉 colour. Meriwether Lewis, December 1, 1805, Point Adams, Oregon Physocarpus – Greek physo – bladder and carpus – fruit, and capitatus – head-like, referring to the crowded, round flower clusters. The […]
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“after dinner we proceeded on our voyage. I walked on Shore with Shabono on the N. Side through a handsome bottom. met Several parties of women and boys in Serch of herbs & roots to Subsist on maney of them had parcels of the Stems of the Sun flower [arrow-leaf balsamroot]. I joined Capt. Lewis
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Big mouth–hidden under the final log with a worm and centipede for a meal. I exclaimed Rare species! but it’s common, fossorial lives in moist woods under cemetery stones and memorials. —-From Exponential Decay Function, Robert Ronnow These are large salamanders (up to 8 inches long) of the family Ambystoma – the mole salamanders. Mole
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“after dinner we proceeded on our voyage. I walked on Shore with Shabono on the N. Side through a handsome bottom. met Several parties of women and boys in Serch of herbs & roots to Subsist on maney of them had parcels of the Stems of the Sun flower [arrow-leaf balsamroot]. I joined Capt. Lewis
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……………we saw a number of trout today since the river has become more shallow; also caught a fish of a white colour on the belly and sides and of a bluish cast on the back which had been accedentally wounded by a setting pole. it had a long pointed mouth which opened somewhat like
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