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here and there by the white surfaces of the geyser basins, from which 
at intervals clouds of steam would shoot upwards, telling us of some 
geyser in eruption. Over the plateau below us were several elk 
leisurely making their way, and on a peak near by we watched a band 
of Rocky Mountain sheep travelling along what seemed to us to be 
the face of an almost perpendicular precipice. The bleak wind which 
swept the summit that we occupied hardly seemed favorable to plant- 
life other than the hardy lichens and mosses, and yet its flora proved 
to be quite extensive and varied, as the following species, collected 
over an area of a few square rods, will show: Douglasia montana^ 
Gray., Salix reticulata^ L., Draba crassifolia, Graham, D. alpina, L., 
Smelowskia calycina, Myosotis sylvatica^ Hoffm., var. alpestris, Koch., 
Eritrichium nanum^ Schroder, var. aretioides, Herder., Arenaria 
stricta, Wats , Silene acaulis, L., Saxifraga oppositifolia, L., Oxytropis 
Lamberti^ Pursh., Astragalus tegetarius, Wats., var. implexus, Canby., 
Dry as octopetala^ L., Sibbaldia procumbens^ L., Antennaria alpina, 
Gaertn., Artemisia scopulorum^ Gray., Erigeron uniflorus, L., E, radi- 
cal us ^ Hook. 
In the treacherous hot spring bogs throughout the Park -one will 
meet with a peculiar flora containing many species which are more or 
less familiar sea-coast plants, such as Ranunculus Cynibalaria, 
Pursh., Potentilla Anserina, L., Rumex maritimus, L., Potamogeton 
pectinatus (L.?) Ruppia marillma^ L., and Triglochin maritimum, 1.*. 
There is a characteristic plant of the region, Cnicus Drummondit^ 
Gray, which has a little romance connected with it in spite of its un- 
preposessing appearance. In 1870 one of a band of explorers in the 
then unknown region which is now the Yellowstone Park became 
separated from his companions and wandered alone for thirty-seven 
days through the dense forests and over the mountains, and was only 
saved from starvation by the nourishment derived from the roots of 
this thistle. 
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Contributions toward a List of the State and Local Floras of 
the United States. 
The Indian Territory. 
Catalogue of Plants collected in the Exploration, by Capt. R. B. 
Marcy, of the Red River. By John Torrey. (C.) 
_ Washington, 1853. Appendix G. . 
List of some of the most interesting Plants collected in the Indian 
Territory. By G. D. Butler. (B.) 
In Bot. Gazette iii., 1878, Logansport, Ind. 
Catalogues of Transcontinental Expeditions. 
Descriptions of new Species and Genera of Plants in the Natural 
Order Compositae, collected in a tour across the Continent to 
the Pacific, a Residence in Oregon, and a visit to the Sandwich 
Islands and Upper California during the years 1834 and iSjS- 
By Thomas Nuttall. (D.) 
In Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. vii. (new series) 282. 
List of Plants collected on a Military Reconnoissance from to^^ 
Leavenworth, Mo., to San Diego, Cal. By John Torrey, M. 1^- 
(C.) 
