Organism of the Week

Peamouth (Mylocheilus caurinus)

..after we encamped a little Indian boy caugh several chubbs with a bone in this form which he substituted for a hook.  these fish were of about 9 inches long small head large abdomen, small where the tail joined the body, the tail wide long in proportion and forked.  the back and ventral fins were equadistant […]

Peamouth (Mylocheilus caurinus) Read More »

Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)

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

Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus) Read More »

Cicada (Cicadidae sp.)

They sat there, on the tower, these Trojan elders,like cicadas perched up on a forest branch, chirpingtheir soft, delicate sounds.  –The Iliad, Homer. Cicadas belong to the Order Hemiptera, the true bugs, and most are in the family Cicadidae, with two species in the Tettigarcidae.  Hemiptera are different from other insects in that both the nymph

Cicada (Cicadidae sp.) Read More »

Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)

…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

Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus) Read More »