Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

FLOWERS.
brush and blue gentian, with their various companions of spring, summer and fall, improving every hour
of sunshine in their brief lives. They looked as happy and emitted their little fragrance as freely, as
though they were in the midst of civilization. Bltiue
and yellow are the principal colors-several varieties
of the former-round and trumpet-shaped blossoms
pendant on stalks; again a similar-shaped flower still
smaller; a little round flower in pink and white,
known only here, and of a yellow hue. There are
babies and grand-babies of the sun-flower family in
every shade. Somne of these are about the size of a
tea-saucer, with a centre stem of richest red, with
deep yellow leaves hanging away from it-each color the very concentration of itself, as if dyed at tlhe
original fountain head.
We found the hair-bell at home everywhere, standing alone on the mountain sides, occasionally at an
elevation of eleven or twelve hundred feet, as well as
in the valleys and guarded parks, in its glory among
all its rivals; but the fringed gentian is more particular-grows only in low, rich giound. The painter's
brush, so called here, stands distinct on a single low
stalk, about three inches in length, and one inch in
thickness of flower or diameter in every shade of
red, from deepest crimson to pale pink, and in straw
colors from white to lemon. The most attractive
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