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species, It is interesting to note that the Indian name of the 
_ creek, Wasahancha, is said to mean “ where the pines extend far 
_ out,” as if the Indians had also noted the remarkable eastward * 
extension of the Rocky Mountain pine.— Charles E. Bessey. 
‘Paty anywhere else upon the continent. Each has stretched 
out along arm from its forest area, and the two trees have thus 
come together, oe 
\t the station mentioned I saw walnut-trees between two and 
feet in diameter, and am informed that, several years ago, 
- Considerable quantity of walnut lumber was manufactured from 
in the cañon.— Charles E. Bessey. 
ited Iron-Wood Tree in the Black Hills.—Although lim- 
, westwardly to “ Eastern Iowa, Southeastern Missouri, an 
Sas, to Eastern Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Eastern 
by Sargent (“Woods of the United States,” p. 95), I 
observed the iron-wood (Osérya virginica), in consider- 
k undance, upon the head-waters of Rapid Creek, in the” 
loaded Hills of Dakota. The trees were not large, but were | 
1 with their hop-like fruits. It occurs also in Northern, 
“xa, upon the Niobrara River and its tributaries, and in 
= eastern counties along the Missouri River.—Charles E. Bessey. 
shee Another Tumble-Weed.—The list of plants having the 
1> founding up their stems and branches so as to form a- 
end of the season — 
mble-weed,” must — 
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