Munroa squarrosa. 
Found in small quantities in one locality. 
Chloris verticillata. 
Common on low, sandy land. 
Andropogon saccharoides, var. 
Co n ow, Sandy land, where it is valued highly for hay 
and used tien young for pasture. 
Pol, me" Pi ies sop 
mon at the edge of streams and in swampy places through 
‘New Mexico and Arizona. It varies from 1 ineh to 2 feet in 
height, and is not eaten when other food is to be had. 
Polypogon oe 
Common with the above in wet ground. 
Eragrostis pees 
vare. 
Stipa pennata, var. Neo Mexicana. 
Occasionally seen on the mesa. 
Seleropogon Karwinskianus. 
uite common on the bigh mesa above the lava beds. 
Muhilenbergia Texana. 
Abundant among rocks on the side of the Java bed. 
Setaria caudata. 
Rather common near the base of the lava bed. 
Bromus racemosus. (introduced.) 
single plant seen. 
Dalea scoparia. 
Very abundant on the mesa near the lava beds. It furnishes 
almost the entire forage in the dry season. 
Juncus rit var., and a species of Eleocharis form fally two-thirds 
the growth of the low meadows which are eut for hay. 
Palies containing the same species are eaten closely and 
evenly. 
Coolidge, New Mexico, June 19. 
Coolidge is located 6 miles west of the Continental Divide, in a valley 
some 5 miles wide, with buttes perhaps 1,500 feet high upon the north, 
and sloping hills fully as high upon the south. There is no water for 
many miles in any direction except that obtained from wells. The val- 
ley or pass over the divide reaches from near Bluewater to Winslow, 
Ariz., and through its whole length is dry except in the rainy season. 
In the cajions are occasional springs which afford scanty water for the. 
few sheep and goats kept by the Indians, but water in sufficient quan- 
tity for cattle or horses is rarely found exeept where wells have been 
dug. Very little stock is beat ae and there is no Epping of ~. 
