SU NOTES TAKEN. 
Thus far from Washita I had missed tle flowers. A few 
were still left, but they had lost the charm of profusion and 
uxuriance. 
It was to be sure getting late in the season, and I must 
expect that soon these prairie gems would vanish entirely from 
our sight, but the thought caused me much regret; there was 
such a home feeling about ihe it was like missing “the od 
familiar faces.” ' 
I found no new varieties to ee to those already collected 
and described, except a convolvulus, and a species of lauris- 
tinus, of both of which I obtained specimens. 
‘The Captain having concluded to dispense with one of the 
teams, and send it back to Washita, the afternoon was spent 
in dispatching by this unexpected opportunity, letters to our 
far off friends and. home, when, after a pleasant bath in 
a little stream below camp, we resigned ourselves to our 
blankets for the night. 
