The Chinese account calls this vegetable production the =Hwa= plant, and as =Hwa= stands for "glory" (see Williams' Chinese dict.) it is apparent that the "Morning Glory" is referred to. Botanist Wood says: "This =glorious= plant is a =native= of Tropical America and now universally cultivated. It is also nearly naturalized with us." (in the United States.) "The flowers are ephemeral. Beginning to open soon after midnight, they greet the Sun at his rising, arrayed in all their =glory=" (=Hwa=) "and before he reaches the meridian, fold their robes and perish. But their work is done, and their successors, already in bud, will renew the gorgeous display the following morning."--P. 182. Such a flower might be held to symbolize the fleeting glory of the generations which had lived and died in Central America. It still climbs about the temples of the Sun, saluting its divinity with a smile, and then falling prostrate among the desolate and forsaken altars. It may often be seen twining its arms around the monuments of a buried Past, or pressing its lips to the dust of the vanished race it so speedily follows. It lives but a day, says the American botanist. It lives but a day, says the Shan Hai King. Surely the works in Arizona are worthy of the exiled Toltecs. One of the ancient stone structures, on a northern feeder of the Gila, is so strong, commodious, and so impregnably planted that by universal consent it is called a Castle. And because the Indian tribes persist in ascribing its construction to =Mu= or =Mo-te= it is known as "Montezuma's Castle." The Ethnological Bureau has interested itself in the preservation of this impressive work of the so-called Cliff-dwellers, and our Government has taken charge of it as a "National Monument." And =Ari-zona= is named in honor of the =Ari= or "Maiden"--the legendary Queen of the Pimo =zona= or Pimo valley. The mother referred to in the ancient Chinese record is thus remembered in the title of a Yankee sister State. Her idolized son is said to have governed Forts, and in the vicinity of the Castle we find a number of forts. Dr. Fewkes says: "The =forts= were built on the summits, ... and it is an instructive fact in this connection that one rarely loses sight of one of these hill =forts= before another can be =seen=." An "approaching foe" could be discerned and "smoke signals" would warn field-workers "to retreat to the =forts= for protection."--28th Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 207. (Read also connected pages for information relating to the forts and their builders. The same or an allied people erected also houses in natural caves or excavated them in soft rock."--P. 219. The latter--the excavated dwellings are noticed in Asiatic books and will be dealt with in next pamphlet--if such is ever written.)