But we will return to our first place. Also along the foot of the mountain and among rocks we find during the summer months alow growing shrubby plant of the order Malvaceae. It has flowers from 1 to 2 inches in diameter of a very pink color and is blooming up to late in autumn. A straight and upright growing shrub is abundant; it has small leaves and virgate branches, about 6 to 10 feet high, and in summer long spikes of white, sweet-scented flowers. Its name is Lippia lycioides. In very bare places where the soil consists of disintegrated limestone the beautiful little Erythraea Beyrichi is found, also sometimes near springs. It belongs to the order Gentianaceae, and in flowering time has more flowers than leaves; the color is rose. Its near relative, the old Lisianthus Russel-lianus, but now I believe called Eustoma Russelli-ana, is sometimes here found, but more abundantly in the prairies in wet places, where it lifts up its panicle of splendid violet flowers from June to September; it is one of our most gorgeous plants.

A small tree of the Mimosa tribe is found also on the summit of Mount Bonnell; it has fine bipin-nate leaves and in April rose-colored globular flowers and grows from five to ten feet high.

In the ravine on the foot of the mountain grows Sophora affinis; it grows to a large tree in rich soil, but in poor situations even as a shrub a few feet high. It is deciduous with pinnate leaves, and drooping clusters of sweet-scented flowers in April, white with purplish pink. In the same locality with the preceding grows Cercis renifolia, large shrub or small tree with kidney-shaped leaves, and rosy purple flowers at end of February or early in March. In the clefts of rocks we may look for Oenothera macrocarpa with its very large golden yellow flowers. Pentstemon Coboea is found in nearly all dry and rocky places: its large flowers appear in April. Another species, P. digitalis, is met nearer Austin in sandy pastures. A perennial sage grows in moist and somewhat shaded places; it has heart-shaped leaves which are scented like musk and a long spike of dark scarlet flowers. Commelyna coelestis is very ubiquitous in its habit; it is found in gardens as a weed as well as in rocky places; its bright blue flowers are unsurpassed by any other I know. Tradescantia rosea, belonging to same order, is found in many places along the mountains.

An annual Commelyna is also found here with red, white and blue flowers; the flowers are large, but the plant is of very rank growth and looks weedy.

A queer and strange plant is the Ephedra antisy-philitica. It belongs to the Gymnospermae - the same to which the pine and cypress are classified. It is a drooping plant growing between rocks. The stem attains the size of a man's arm, with numerous long pendulous branches like a weeping willow; color of branches, dark bright green without any leaves. A most striking and characteristic plant - Bacharis angustifolia - lines the river courses, and flowers in September with silvery white plumes.

Amsonia longifolia prefers to establish its home on the tops of mountains, and produces its umbels of blue flowers in April. One of the earif not the very earliest flowers, is Anemone Caroliniensis. It lifts its red, white and blue heads of flowers sometimes in January. Nema-stylis geminiflora sends up in March, leaves resem. bling those of a Tigridia, and adorns itself in April with pale blue flowers, some nearly white-It belongs to the order Iridaceae. A very similar bulb grows nearer the city of Austin in dry pastures, but is not so tall - only 6 inches high, with bright sky blue flowers - it is Eutsylis purpurea.

In many places we meet with Lantana camara, gay with its changeable red and yellow flowers from May to October. Callicarpa Americana has also its home at the foot of the mountains. Its purple berries are very ornamental in autumn, and the writer of this has several times found bushes with ivory white berries instead of purple, and transferred the same to his garden.

About half way between Austin and this mountain is a single tree of Acacia Farnesiana. It is scarce near Austin, but abundant at San Antonio and south; and when it produces its globular yellow flowers in March, it perfumes the whole neighborhood.

A little spicy plant is also met on the mountain sides - the Pepper bush, Capsicum fruticosum. It produces twice in a year - in July and again in October - its crops of scarlet berries; these are of a hot taste, much hotter than black pepper. The birds relish it, and it is also gathered and dried for the household; it is the main ingredient of several Mexican dishes, as Chile con carne and others, which are sold by Mexicans on the streets of Austin.

On the side of the mountain we find also a Four o'clock, and from Asa Gray's Forest, Field and Garden Botany, I guess that it is Mirabilis Wrightiana. It occurs even as a weed in neglected fields; flowers, purplish lilac. Now comes again an evergreen shrub, Rhus virens. It is a true evergreen with leathery leaves, not very high - 4 or 5 feet - but spreading, and is embellished in September, with small panicles of sweet-scented white flowers. A little farther up the mountains we find Aquilegia Canadensis, usually in moist and shaded places, but occasionally a plant is found in a little pocket of a boulder fully exposed to the glare of the sun, and producing flowers in such situations.

Chelone glabra has selected its abode in wet places, and bears long spikes of whitish flowers, striped and spotted with purple. Erythronium albidum, a beautiful little bulbous plant, with green leaves spotted with purplish brown, may be found in secluded places early in March. Apios tuberosa, which the Editor of this magazine named for the writer, is very scarce. The writer found it only in a single place here in the mountains. Several kinds of Oenothera are met, but the specific names are not known to the writer. They are all tall and yellow flowering. Lobelia cardinalis is abundant where it is sufficiently moist. A species of Daslyrion with long leaves like rushes, takes the edge of rocky ledges, and produces in April a large panicle of white flowers. Here in this canon - for the whole valley of this creek and its ramifications consists of narrow gorges - is also the home of Clematis coccinea, now sufficiently known not to need any description. Clematis Viorna grows below the mountains, and is not found with coccinea together in the same locality.