Plants

In Sweden they form it into bats or baffles, which lie at their doors to clean shoes upon. It restores ropy wine in a few days.  Encyclopedia Londinensis, Or, Universal dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Anonymous.  1810. Running club moss is a Lycopodium, a genus of plants that are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial (some grow […]

I made the esperiment, found that they became perfectly soft by boiling, but had a very bitter taste, which was naucious  to my palate, and I transferred them to the Indians who had eat them heartily— Meriwether Lewis, August 22nd, 1805 Bitterroot is a widespread plant throughout the arid western United States.  Its range includes

………in [this] infernal soil nothing but that fag-end of vegetable creation, “sage-brush,” ventures to grow…When crushed, sage-brush emits an odor which isn’t exactly magnolia and equally isn’t exactly polecat–but it is a sort of compromise between the two.–letter to Jane Clemens from Samuel Clemens, 1861 Stiff sagebrush, also known as scabland sagebrush is a small

The dwarf or white-bark pine is the species that forms the timber-line, where it is so completely dwarfed that one may walk over the top of a bed of it as over snow-pressed chaparral.  John Muir  This is a slow-growing and long-lived pine found in the mountains of southwest Canada and the western U.S.   It

Pitch used to go fishing before the sun rose and then retire to the shade before it became strong.  One day he was late and had just reached the beach when he melted.  Other people rushed to share him.  Douglas-fir arrived first and secured most of the pitch, which he poured over his head and