rested on one of the ledges in a sunny grassy field. The sides generally but apart the north side pine clad, the south side shade rock & bush clad with some spruces alder, only alder. The elder trees are still in green leaf. Two plane trees were red and on a blazed spindling flowers -- no foliage. Long cane-like hedges. On fir wood were woods, some men carrying bundles of firgo bearing large rose flowers called tea flower by the Chinese were much. These flowers are used in New Year, Germany. They looked like a species of Rhododendron. The camp was pitched where the Toli Lake River joins the Yang-pi. The country on the afternoon was a series of fields & scattered huts with mixed oak trees & walnuts on hillsides. A large tree like Capparis made its appearance. Here about cultivation, many of the plants bore after leaves, 4 inches long & pale yellow. The campanula Indian fig cactus was