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Show Utah Beats the World. Wo do not feel justified in depri v-ing v-ing our readers of any valuable information in-formation of ft local character, and perhaps an 'apology may be due them for not presenting at an earlier day, the following botanical catalogue, for which we are indebted to Mr. Sereno Watson, of the triangulating party, which explored portions of thia territory ter-ritory last summer. It appears as if we could bo excelled by no other Btate or territory in botanical productions with unpronounceable names. For instance, we have the antirrhinum maurandiodide antirrhiniflora and graphalium luteo-album sprengelii. Beneath the tiamp of Utes Apaches the sweet alternanthera lanuginosa is crushed; tho wild savage passes unap-preciatively unap-preciatively the echinocactus poly-cnephalue, poly-cnephalue, nor even after the varied education received from Indian agents and Quakers could he tell the difler-erence difler-erence between a muhlenbergia dis-tichophylla dis-tichophylla and a karwinskya hum-boUiana hum-boUiana rhaumus k. h. b.; still we are justified in believiug that he knows the gayophytums and scalper-gianas scalper-gianas by instinct. The man who hereafter dares to say that Utah is only a desert, containing con-taining nothing but silver, coal and iron mines, wo ahall tako the liberty of declaring a "bar and a calumniator," calumni-ator," as the above list comprises only a very small portion oi our botanical bo-tanical treasures. |