It is not uncommon in the Arizona desert for a species to form flowers or leaves, following a change in temperature, the moisture conditions being not otherwise changed, but, so far as I know, the temperature changes bringing about this result are always from a cooler to a warmer condition and not the reverse. It would not be expected, consequently, that in the present instance a renewal of vegetative activities would follow as a _direct_ result of a lower temperature, although analogous changes are necessary before certain species, after rest, will start development. Whatever may be the immediate cause of the renewal of activity on the part of the plants at Ghardaia as noted, the following species were seen to have formed new leaves: _Henophyton deserti_ and _Zilla macroptera_; also the following fresh flowers with or without shoot growth: _Fagonia bruguieri_, _Haloxylon articulatum_, _Henophyton deserti_, _Ononis polyclada_, and _Zollikoferia resedifolia_, and three other species not determined. =GHARDAIA TO TOUGGOURT.= From Ghardaia the route, consisting of camel trails only, pursued a course south of east to Ouargla, and from Ouargla a direction east of north to Touggourt, over 400 kilometers, Ouargla being about half-way. There are no villages between Ghardaia and Ouargla and none between this place and a point 20 kilometers south of Touggourt, so that in accounts of the vegetation or the topography, lacking convenient points around which to center descriptions, the device will be adopted of using distance estimations to or from the three chief towns.