lOG NEW TEACKS IN NOETH AMEEICA. 



by tlie rancliG-men the Prairie Lily. The 



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sliut all day, and cycn at sunset do not open. But 



at 10 o'clock, when I yisited them in the bri 



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s:panded to its full length, the barren rocks 



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were changed into a perfect fairy -land, and the air was richly | 

 scented with the fragrance of the flowers. A full-gro^Ti plant 



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ght. The petals measure 



three inches, stamens two inches, leaf four inches in length. 

 These measurements, with the accompanying engraving, will, 

 I think, give a fair idea of the flower and plant. The scent, ^ 

 although pleasant at first, brings on a violent head-ache iff! 

 indulged in too freely, especially when sleeping under its 

 influence. These plants seem very capricious, for we only 

 found them in a few localities ; but in these they grew in 

 great abundance. Two other species of Ment 

 Gray, and M. imcla^ iSTutt., were also night 

 and inhabited dry, rocky places ; they wer€ 

 nuentlv met with than the above. 



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T^cxt morning all were up and busy at sunrise, for General 

 Wright had determined, mthout more delay, to send back 



i\Ir. Eicholtz and his division, to re-siirvcy the 



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Ime from the valley of the Purgatoire across 

 the Eaton Mountains to the head-waters of the Canadian. 

 The soldiers of the escort were out of rations, and were 

 starting for Maxwell's, a large hacienda guarded by a military 

 post, and situated at the foot of the Eocky Mountains, about 

 sixteen miles distant. Mr. Eunk and his topographers might 

 also be seen, with compass and rule, compiling the maps of the 

 districts we had passed through ; one would be reading out the 

 results of the leveller, another computing the cui'ves, a thii'd 

 sketching ia the topography of the country adjacent to ih^ 



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