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on Cherokee creek, in a better looking country. The creek was 
full of Nuphar advena, and the banks were lined with Carex co- 
mosa, and a remarkable variety of Carex acuta. 
The 2d of May we reached the granite region of Llano. It 
first appears as a few granite boulders cropping out among the 
post oaks, and along with them we noticed the following plants: 
Tephrosia Lindheimeri, Sida Lindheimeri, and a small plum tree 
(Prunus glandulosa) covered with fuzzy, unripe fruits, looking 
very much like small peaches. The people said they were “awful” 
good when ripe. 
1e Babyhead mountains were soon in view, a dark mass of 
nearly naked granites. I was disappointed in finding but two 
plants I had not seen before, Pellea Wrightiana and a Selagi- 
nella that our best authorities have considered only a form of 
rupestris. ‘In spite of that honorable opinion I am very much 
inclined to think it a different species. Beyond those hills, in a 
sandy valley, we collected Vesicaria grandiflora, Hymenatherum 
Wrightii, and an Indigofera considered by some to be leptosepala, 
bat quite different in appearance. 
t the town of Llano, after we had crossed the river of that 
name, we turned our faces toward the setting sun, going up the 
Llano valley. There in the sandy forests were found Dalea nana 
and lasiathera, Paronychia setacea, Eritrichium Texanum, Vesi- 
caria argyrea, and Houstonia humifusa. 
n the 4th, being along the Llano, we stopped on account of 
humerous species calling my attention. In the scanty soil among 
the rocks that border the tumultuous Llano were discovered 
Boerhaavia tenuifolia, Nicotiana repanda, Gilia incisa and acerosa, 
Bouteloua Burkei, and a shrubby Croton not yet named. In the 
river Herpestis chameedryoides was found. 
e next day, after crossing a very poor country, a perfect 
desert, where Plantago Patagonica was about the only thing grow- 
Ing, with here and there a tuft of Hermania Texana not yet in 
bloom, we pitched our tent at the very foot of House mountains, 
a mass of bold, denuded rocks, quite high for Texas, where there 
are no true mountains this side of the Pecos. This proved to be 
@ very interesting locality for a botanist, and for a-tourist it is 
certainly so. And now I am sorry we did not stay there a week 
instead of three days. Duri ng that time I had my hands more 
than full. The ferns were Woodsia obtusa, Notholena Hookeri, 
ella flexuosa (with immense fronds) and Wrightiana, Cheilan- 
thes Lindheimeri, and a variety of tomentosa near Eatoni. 
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