358 A Trip through Southeastern Utah. [ZOE 
that are called cloud-bursts, where the water descends in sheets and 
in ashort time starts waterfalls that leap a hundred feet in places 
over precipices, to the slope below, and then rush to the river. Before 
the storm, however, we secured a Hoffmanseggia that seems to be 
new, a peculiar form of Linum rigidum, Evriogonum Thomasi?, 
Coldenia hispidissima, Poliomintha incana, Glyplopleura marginata, 
Euphorbia flageYaris, Encelia frutescens, and fine fruiting speci- 
mens of Coloptera Newberry. This had before been collected in 
flower; but it was only now that its puzzling character began to ap- 
pear. No two seeds were to be seen that looked alike. It was try- 
ing to be a Cymopterus and a Leptotznia at the same time, and 
even its leaves showed the struggles which it was experiencing. 
Along the river banks were willows, and the common Raccharis 
salicina. Berberis Fremonti grew at the foot of the cafiion among 
the rocks, under which we were perfectly sheltered from the storm. 
Stephanomeria exigua, beautiful with its numerous spreading pink 
blossoms in the early morning, was a bedraggled object after the 
rain; Erigeron Utahensis, just coming into bloom, seemed to be 
rare; Lrickellia linifolia in flower along the slopes, and the young 
shoots of 2. microphylla, which is a fall-bloomer, were also ob- 
served; Aplopappus Nuttallit, Phacelia crenulata and Amsonia 
brevifolta were there at home too. 
Moab is an oasis in a desert, and its poplars might be compared 
to the palms that made Palmyra so famous for beauty long ago. It 
is as renowned, too, among the pilgrims through this land, and we 
had heard of its beauty, its fruits, and its hospitable people before 
we started. Its green fields, lovely orchards, and extensive vine- 
_yards were such a sudden change from the dry country around that, 
undoubtedly, the impression of its loveliness was made more vivid 
from the surroundings. 
The next day was spent on a barren highway, where whatever 
green thing could survive the drought fell a prey to the cattle that 
were driven over that road. The ground was tramped down and 
marked with the impressions of innumerable hoofs. Towards even- 
ing we entered one of the basin-like cafions, called ‘‘ washes,’’ pecul- 
jar to that region. Here was found a Gilia worth thirty-five miles 
through the dust and heat. It is one of the most beautiful of the 
genus, and well deserves the name superba, which has been bestowed 
upon it. 
