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lace-like filminess. So far as we could discover, Jamaica was the only 

 place in the Exposition where collections of native ferns could be pur- 

 chased. 



Chili had a wonderful educational display — such a number of fine 

 pictures, marble groups and figures, native animals and fishes, miner- 

 als, manufactures, splendid work of all kinds from schools and colleges, 

 and last but not least, a very valuable ethnological subject, the petri- 

 fied body of a woman found in a copper mine. There was but the 

 outer shell left, but the hair and nails were still perfect. The body 

 weighs fifty pounds, and it is not positively known to what tribe she 

 belonged. This is said to be the only petrified body found, and the 

 authorities have refused large sums of money for it. 



New York City. 



THE FLORA OF SNOW CANON, CALIFORNIA, 



By S. B. Parish. 



MILL Creek is a stream conveying the drainage of the southern 

 slopes of Grayback and San Bernardino mountains, the culmin- 

 ating summits of the range which takes its name from the latter 

 peak. From its narrow, boulder-strewn gorge these mountains rise 

 witli great abruptness, often in accKvities of naked rocks, but generally 

 shaggy with a scattering growth of conifers and oaks, or a denser chap- 

 arral of Ceanothus and other shrubs. At one place, secluded in a re- 

 cess which it has excavated in the rock-walls, a slender stream tumbles 

 over the precii)ice and then makes its way in a series of cascades to the 

 canon floor. On the opposite side of the stream the slopes are nearly 

 as rugged and abrupt, but are less lofty, and are cut by a few side can- 

 ons. Botanically Mill Creek possesses considerable interest, for here 

 have been found the types of half a dozen species, one of which, Jimcus 

 canaliculatus, is as yet known only by the scanty collections which have 

 been made on its banks. But in general its vegetation is that common 

 everywhere at the same altitude in these mountains. It has, however, 

 a short side branch which can bear no other name than that of Snow 

 Canon, which seems to me one of the most interesting spots in south- 

 ern California. This is a little below the falls, and on the opposite or 

 southern side of the creek, and consequently in the lower mountains of 

 that side, and not in the dominant peaks. The altitude of the point 

 where it reaches the creek bead is about 5500 feet above sea level. Its 

 mouth is choked with a great moraine of boulders, and discharges no 

 surface water. But following up for a half mile one comes upon a pure 



