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An Afterglow


LOWELL OBSERVATORY
FLAGSTAFF

Chronicle of the Flowers continued.—

May 7 First low wild vetch in flower pink-purple.
May 8–9 Social tall yellow flower woolly leaves, first opens its eyes.
May 9 First dime daisy, the one that buds red and rises about three inches from the ground.
May 9 First yellow lupin (over on Clark's Top)
May 9 The dime daisy was by the sumach patch near Wolf Canon.
May 9 Oaks, the most advanced just breaking into leaf and flower. Right east of the study window was the first.
May 10 First very small yellow flower leaves at right angles in opposite pairs.
First Indian paint-brush bud———

As Mr. Lampland and I continued our walk this morning we suddenly, within a foot, came upon a huge snake which at first we doubted to be a rattler. He coiled and hissed. We killed him with stones and brought him home still moving. He measured five feet two inches and is now in a large jar, as sarcophagus, for preservation. He was, we think, a bull-snake. He was lying nearly at length on the mesa just this side of the sumach patch above Wolf Ravine.

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