Lewis: February 12, 1806

Wednesday February 12th 1806. This morning we were visited by a Clatsop
man who brought with him three dogs as a remuneration for the Elk which
him self and nation had stolen from us some little time since, how ever
the dogs took the alarm and ran off; we suffered him to remain in the fort
all night.

There are two species of ever green shrubs which I first met with at the
grand rappids of the Columbia and which I have since found in this
neighbourhood also; they grow in rich dry ground not far usually from some
watercourse. the roots of both species are creeping and celindric. the
stem of the 1st is from a foot to 18 inches high and as large as a
goosqull; it is simple unbranced and erect. it’s leaves are cauline,
compound and spreading. the leafets are jointed and oppositely pinnate, 3
pare & terminating in one, sessile, widest at the base and tapering to
an accuminated point, an inch and a quarter the greatest width, and 3
inches & a 1/4 in length. each point of their crenate margins armed
with a subulate thorn or spine and are from 13 to 17 in number. they are
also veined, glossy, carinated and wrinkled; their points obliquely
pointing towards the extremity of the common footstalk.The stem of
the 2nd is procumbent abot the size of the former, jointed and unbranched.
it’s leaves are cauline, compound and oppositely pinnate; the rib from 14
to 16 inches long celindric and smooth. the leafets 21/2 inches long and 1
inch wide. greatest width 1/2 inch from their base, to which they are
regularly rounded, and from the same point tapering to an accute apex,
wich is mostly, but not invariably tirminated with a small subulate thorn.
they are jointed and oppositely pinnate, consisting of 6 pare and
terminating in one, sessile serrate, or like the teeth of a whipsaw, each
point terminating in a small subulate spine, being from 25 to 27 in
number; veined, smooth, plane and of a deep green, their points tending
obliquely towards the extremity of the rib or common footstalk. I do not
know the fruit or flower of either. the 1st resembles the plant common to
many parts of the U States called the mountain holley.