Plants

“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth. —Kurt […]

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

…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

“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

“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