most brilliant electrical discharges, were the sure precursors of 

 floods sweeping down the rocky bed of Cedar creek. The partic- 

 ular location of each storm was plainly indicated by the different 

 colored mud, brought down on the swollen flood, varying from 

 dark brown to dirty yellow or dull red. The stratified deposits 

 thus spread over the bed of the great basin made up the perma- 

 nent geological record of summer storms in the Wahsatch in 1874. 



On the 20th of July I took final leave of this section of south- 

 ern Utah, carrying with me many pleasant remembrances of the 

 kindness and hospitality received from this much misrepresented 

 Mormon people, who in supplanting the digger Indians by civil- 

 ized homes of industry and refinement, are deserving of more 

 credit than they have yet received. 



The list of plants following will conclude the present paper. 



THE INDIAN CEMETERY OF THE GRUTA DAS 

 MUMIAS, SOUTHERN MINAS GERAES, BRAZIL. 



The Fazcnda da Fortaleza, also known as Santa Anna, formerly 

 the property of the late Barao de Lage, and probably the finest 

 plantation in Brazil, is situated in the southern part of the prov- 

 ince of Minas Geraes at a distance of about seventeen miles to 

 the east of the city of Juiz de Fora. 1 It belongs to-day to the 

 Conselheiro Diogo Velho C. de Albuquergue, a gentlemen celebra- 

 ted as a politician, and who occupies the important post of Presi- 

 dent of the Uniao Industria road. The region in which the Fa- 

 zenda is situated is composed of gneiss, similar to that of the Serra 

 do Mar, and of the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, and probably of 



At a distance of a league, more or less, to the south or south- 

 east of the Fazenda, is a line of high hills of the same gneiss, 

 three of which form prominent heads presenting lofty, almost per- 

 pendicular precipices, smooth and rounded and striped vertically 

 with black bands, like the cliffs of the neighborhood of Rio de Ja- 



