Lewis and Clark.Editor: I await eagerly the publication of American Forests as I find the articles informative and entertaining and the magazine a high quality publication. Imagine my horror to see on the opening page of "A Realm of American Originals" (Summer) two references to the Lewis & Clark expedition having occurred 300 years ago. John H. Thomas Bellevue, Washington Editor: I have been doing closeup photographs of plants collected and/or described by Lewis and Clark from Lolo Pass to the Pacific Ocean and have studied the various references giving their names and dates. I also have consulted botanists from Oregon and Washington. In "A Realm of American Originals" (Summer 03), the "Species Discovered" list should include netleaf hackberry (Celtis reticulata), peachleaf willow (Salix amygdaloides), and sandbar willow (S. exigua) under Washington, not Oregon. Three trees--Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia), madrone (Arbutus arbutus Any of about 14 species (genus Arbutus) of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs or trees, in the heath family. Native to southern Europe and western North America, they are characterized by loosely clustered white or pink flowers and red or orange berries. A. menziesii), and big sagebrush (Artemisia Artemisia, ruler of Caria Artemisia (är'təmĭ`shēə), fl. 4th cent. B.C., ruler of the ancient region of Caria. She was the sister, wife, and successor of Mausolus and erected the mausoleum at Halicarnassus in his memory. tridentata) were not discovered by Lewis & Clark. Several plants on the list were misidentified by Thwaites Thwaites may refer to:
Three trees are missing: cascara cascara /cas·ca·ra/ (kas-kar´ah) [Sp.] bark. cascara sagra´da dried bark of the shrub Rhamnus purshiana, used as a cathartic. buckthorn buckthorn, common name for some members of the Rhamnaceae, a family of woody shrubs, small trees, and climbing vines widely distributed throughout the world. (Rhamnus purshiana) and bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata), and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla). Phyllis Reynolds Portland, Oregon |
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