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^ [[insertion]] [[underlined]] Heracleum lanatum [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] - A plant of the [[strikethrough]] Angelica [[/strikethrough] Umbelliferae  [[strikethrough]] family [[/strikethrough]] (Aiyote) is cooked by the Colville Indians & the slices applied to parts affected by rheumatism. It is first sliced & then baked. For ulcers they scrape & apply it raw. Also use it as a horse lin[[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]]ament.

From Ft Colville en route to Spokane River - on the open hill sides & [[strikethrough]] up [[/strikethrough]] dry terraces, P. ponderosa & larch - on the hills larch, & fir - ^ [[insertion]] Douglasii [[/insertion]] P. contorta in the thick woods.

Mch 30. A liliaceous plant with yellow flower, root in [[plains?]]  first in bloom to day Kaii-heh (Purd. oreille) Sinet-Koo-lee-na, Colville - grows as large as an onion. Edible.

April 1. Spokane R. Bitter root just coming up. A small blue flower in the pine woods. Varieties of Artemisia on the Spokane.

Between Spokane & Clarke's Fork woods [[strikethrough]] a great deal of [[/strikethrough]] the [[strikethrough]] c[[overwritten]] y [[/overwritten]eanoth[[overwritten]] ea [[/overwritten]]us [[/strikethrough]] Ceanothus forms the chief underbrush.

Clarke's Fork. [[strikethrough]] P. [[/strikethrough]][[insertion]] [[underlined]] Pinus [[/insertion]] ponderosa [[/underlined]; Larch; Yellow fir; Cottonwood some of large size. 

April 18.  Yellow skunk cabbage in bloom here - the season a fortnight or three weeks later than on the Spokane.  

A yellow lil[[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]]y ^ [[insertion]] (probably a small flowered variety of [[underlined]] Lilium pennsylvanicum [[/underlined]]) [[/insertion]] in bloom.  Also a trillium. 

April 26.  Strawberry in bloom. Cottonwood do. [[Ditto for: in bloom]] Hawthorne budding.  Larch busting out. Willows in bloom. 

April 30  [[underlined]] Arbutus Uva-ursi [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] or Bearberry [[/insertion] in bloom.  

May 10  A small maple (?) ^ [[insertion]] ([[underlined]] Acer [[/insertion]] circinatum [[/underlined]]) in bloom & beginning to leaf[[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] out. [[strikethrough]] Low [[/strikethrough]] Ground barberry ^ [[insertion]] ([[underlined]] Berberis Aquifolium [[/underlined]]) in bloom.  Alder coming into leaf.

May 12  Swamp maple [[strikethrough]] (?) [[/strikethrough]] in bloom.  Also larch & birch.  A vine with blue flowers.

Transcription Notes:
Ambrosia: Reviewed and edited. Following notes for ref. for fellow reviewers Heracleum lanatum also known as Heracleum maximum Umbelliferae or Apiaceae ceanothus note after April 1st. The overwritten parts have been transcribed as researchers are sometimes interested in how the report is written/edited Transcription centre would like ", ditto, do transcribed as [[Ditto for: text]] Berberis Aquifolium - looks like an "o" on the end but that's how Gill writes M's.