78 
region, and as a record of locality for the distributional study of 
species. The names, with a few exceptions, are those of Pro- 
fessor J. J. Thornber. 
Not until the latter part of June does this montane area 
called Barfoot Park take on the enlivening colors of the floral 
season. During its progress four or five species succeed each 
other in holding the balance of power. The first is a very hand- 
some lupine, determined by Dr. Greene as being new, which 
with its variegated colors, mainly blue, purple, and white, ush- — 
ers in the flowering period, and anticipates by some two weeks 
the summer rainy season. When this is well started, the whole 
domain becomes sprinkled, sometimes even covered in solid 
masses, by Pentstemon Torreyt, a tall, glaucous plant, clothed 
in great symmetry by scarlet flowers of transcendent brillianey. 
Hosts of long-billed humming-birds may be scen flitting noisily 
about its deep-set nectaries. All through July this queen of Bar- 
foot Park flowers holds undisputed reign over the now multifold 
hues and forms of the vegetable population. In Angust, a spe- 
cies of Castilleja, of light red involucre and long-protruding 
yellow corolla, becomes exceedingly abundant, and as is usual in 
such cases, presents many variations. A second species, less 
common, by its dark crimson inflorescence keeps up the brilli- 
ant color note. As the almost daily thunder showers of the 
montane midsummer noons begin to wane into the mellow light 
of the autumn days, the helianthoid Gymnolomia multiflora suc- 
ceeds with its masses of gold to the mastery of the floral situa- 
tion, and holds it easily to the end of the season in the latter 
days of October. 
Among the plants more or less generally in flower over all 
the deeper soil of Barfoot Park may be mentioned Valerzana 
edulis, Cacalia decomposita, at greater intervals Conyza Coulterz, 
the handsomely pinkish coryinbs of Stevza Plummerae, Verbena 
Wrightit with its flowers of similar hue usually arranged in a 
circle; Sezeczo Wootont with its heavy smooth rosettes of basal 
leaves has yellow flowers; Cerastium sericeum, Vicia pulchella, 
