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each axil either a branch, a branchlet, or a flower. I have counted on a 

 very large specimen upward of 300 little pods, nearly all ripe, one inch in 

 length, and each containing about five little, hard, dark, speckled beans. 

 That plant was nearly three feet high, and about two and a half across, north 

 and south. 



In July and August blooms, in alkaline lands, near Great Bend, a gen- 

 tian-like plant, Eustoma Russelliana, with very entire, whitish, glaucous, 

 waxy-looking leaves, and beautiful, large, purple, violet, bluish, pinkish, or 

 white flowers. Like the penstemons, they turn dark in the press. 



Around the edges of such lands grows a species of composite, Flaveria 

 linearis. This plant is three feet high, very branched, grows rank, has angu- 

 lar, red, green, or striped stems, opposite leaves, and a strong smell, nearly 

 like fire-weed. There might be on a branch 30 to 80 very small, triangular 

 heads, packed into a dense corymb, each head having a small, yellow ray, 

 the rays all pointing outward from, a common center. Each head has, in 

 addition to its one ray, three or four disk flowers, that bear very small, black 

 seeds. 



I have found Liatris squarrosa, with very white flowers, instead of red. 



1 append a floral clock for the months of July and August: 



FLORAL CLOCK. 



3 A. M. — Calystegia Sepiura, (withers about 10 A. M.) 



4 A. M. — Ipomea leptophylla, (withers at noon.) 



5 A.M. — Evolvulus argenteus, (closes at 4 p. M.) 



6 A. M. — Pyrrhopappus grandiflorus, (closes at 6 p. M., to reopen next day. 

 Closes also in rain or dense clouds.) 



7 A. M. — Callirrhoe involucrata, (closes at 6 to 7 P. M., to reopen next day.) 



8 A. M. — Linum rigidum, (falls oflT at 4 p. M.) 



8 to 9 A. M. — Specularia leptocarpa. 



9 A. M. — Portulaca pilosa, (closes at 1 p. M. ; does not reopen.) 

 9 to 10 A. M. — Portulaca oleracea, (native.) 



11 A. M. — Talinum teretifolium. 



12 M. — Hibiscus Trionum, (naturalized.) 



2 p. M. — Mamillaria vivipara, (closes at 5 p. M., to reopen next day.) 



4 to 5 p. M. — Oxybaphus nyctagineus, (closes next morning ) Oxybaphus 

 angustifolius, (closes at 5 a. m. next day.) 



6 to 7 P. M. — Qj^nothera sinuata, (wilts next day.) 



7 P.M. — (Eaothera grandiflora, (opens very promptly; wilts at 7 A. M. 

 next day.) 



This clock is subject to more or less correction and regulation. 

 I append also a floral calendar up to July, but the list, though useful for 

 reference, is too long to read. 



Not having perfected the list beyond July, I omit it. 



