928 fhe General Notes. 
BOTANY." 
= The Eastward Extension of Pinus ponderosa 
southeast corner of the Territory, where it swings out into 
kota so as to include the Black Hills; it immediately pa 
back westward and northwestward into Wyoming to the Ko 
ward to Texas, following pretty closely the rosth meri 
This pine, therefore, according to this map, and all the desen 
tions referred to, reaches its most eastern station in the 
Hills of Dakota, at about 103° of, west longitude. f 
In a recent botanical excursion into the northern portion È 
Nebraska I found this pine at a number of stations fully thè 
degrees farther to the eastward of the Black Hills. Itis 
_ dant along the bluffs of the Niobrara River from near the 10 
meridian to near the 102d, and probably much farther we 
On the buttes which abound in Northwestern Nebraska,’ 
the head-waters of the 
Blac 
| _ mined, but think they are not. Aa 
__ Upon the bluffs bordering the Great Cañon, in which flow’. 
asahancha Creek, commonly called Long Pine 
_€ast of the 1ooth meridian. Inquiries failed to 
istence of the pines eastward of this cañon, and 
* Edited by Prof. CHARLES E, BESSEY, Lincoln, Nebraska: 
