Miscellaneous Publications, Números 4-6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 |
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Página 26 - ... four or five feet. Our little boat rode the waves well ; but when a strong breeze blew, the swell was too great, and we could only venture along the shore. This lake is about twenty-two miles in length from north to south, and an average of ten to fifteen miles in width from east to west. It has been aptly compared to the human hand ; the northern portion would constitute the palm, while the southern prolongations or arms might represent the fingers.
Página 8 - Pubescent; stem branching, leafy, 6'-15' high, very slender, sometimes branching from the base ; pubescence simple or forked ; leaves oval, cauline ones lanceolate, toothed; flowers very small, yellow; petals about twice as long as the calyx; style none; silicles oblong-elliptical, rather obtuse, glabrous, about 4" long, one-third to one-half the length of the slender spreading pedicels.
Página 16 - Buttes station, on the old overland stage road," — about nine miles to the south they rise in lofty domes and pinnacles, which, at a distance, resemble the fluted columns of some cathedral of the olden time, standing in the midst of desolation; its lofty turreted roof and towering spires rising far above the surrounding country; but on nearer approach the scene changes, and we find a huge mass of sandstone, worn and washed by the elements until it has assumed the outline of a church of the grandest...
Página 11 - Torr. Am. NY Lye. 2, p. 168. Somewhat pubescent, stem branched ; leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, entire or remotely serrulate, the lower varying from lanceolate to oblong or obovate, the upper linear, obtuse or acute, usually 3-4 times the length of the stipules ; stipules linear, one-third the length of the leaves ; peduncles slender; 2"-6" long, articulated, bibracteolate ; flowers small ; capsules glabrous; seeds turning black.
Página 16 - Originally an elevated country, composed of a number of soft beds of sandstone, of varying thickness and softness, underlaid by immense beds of shale, it has been worn down and cut- out by rills, creeks and streams, leaving this strange, weird country to be the wonder of all generations.
Página 26 - The easily eroded breccia along the riverchannel was cut deeper and deeper as ages passed, while springs and creeks and the falling rain combined to carve the sides of the canon into the fantastic forms they now present, by wearing away the softer rock and leaving the hard : basalt and the firmer hot-spring deposits standing in massive columns and gothic pinnacles. The basis material of the old hot-spring deposits in...
Página 17 - ... and the distance through is about 300 yards. The current of the stream through the gate is slow, finding its way among the fallen masses of rock, with gentle, easy motion, and pleasant murmur. Fifteen miles farther above the Devil's Gate, is to its sources, among the everlasting snows of the summit ridge. The peaks or cones in the distance, are most distinctly stratified and apparently horizontal or nearly so, with their summits far above the limits of perpetual snow, and from 1,500 to 2,000...
Página 48 - Syn. 1. c., p. 13. Simple, oval, the almost terete tubercles bearing fascicles of 5-8 reddish-brown spines, surrounded by 15-20 grayish ones in a single series; all straight and very rigid; the latter 5"-8
Página 139 - Boott. Culm l°-2° high, rigid ; leaves broad, linear, erect; spike oblong, pale, composed of numerous small ovate aggregated androgynous spikelets, staminate at top, the lower spikelets compound ; stigmas 2; perigynium tawny...
Página 23 - ... subsessilibus ; bracteis et floribus fere D. aureae. — Sandy soil, Willow Bar, on the Cimarron; August. Collected in the same region by Fremont in 1845; also by Lindheimer and Mr. Wright in Western Texas in 1847. It appears like a dwarf D. aurea (4 to 6 inches high) ; but the diffusely spreading stems are repeatedly branched and leafy to the spikes, which are smaller and much less dense. 131. D. LAXIFLORA, Pursh, Fl. 2. p. 741. Prairies, on the Cimarron, &c.; August — D. penicillata, Moric....