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the canyon with. Dr. Thornber of Tucson, who was making 

 first-hand notes on the shrubs of Arizona. Here I found for 

 the first time the wild potato, and an Oenothera with corolla 

 tube seven inches long and caulis reduced to zero. The flower 

 came from a dandelion-like rosette of leaves and was a deli- 

 cate rose color. It grew on the edge of a wet swale on the 

 rim and there were nineteen individuals in the colony. 



Mount Eklen and the craters and canyons called us. We 

 found small shells everywhere, but few large ones in the 

 next four weeks. The rain descended upon us and soaked us. 

 The sun or camp fire dried us. We did not catch cold as we 

 would have done at home. We were living the outdoor life 

 and loved it so. When the rainy season came we added 

 mushrooms to our menu. Mushrooms both edible and ques- 

 tionable sprang up everywhere. For weeks we saw a dozen 

 new kinds a day. What a paradise for a mycologist ! There 

 were all colors, shapes and sizes. Near the forest lookout on 

 Mt. Mali an we measured a big one. It was only eleven inches 

 in diameter. We thought surely it was a foot! 



We returned to Peaceful Pine, eighty-five miles, for some 

 property we had cached there, expecting to return to Flag- 

 staff to entrain. The rains had made the roads impassable, 

 so we turned to the right, toward Winslow. This wild road 

 was as good as a boulevard, and soon led us from the pine 

 forest to the desert, edge with its scanty junipers and pinons. 

 This was a remarkable change and the bleak desolation of 

 those last twenty or thirty miles seemed to rise and strike us 

 in the eyes. The mirage did not plague us as it did the 

 prairie schooners of yore, for we had plenty of water and 

 gas and speed. 



One of us must return to civilization, and one go on and 

 on, ever westward, through the great desert, to California. 

 This is the realization of a beautiful dream of searching for 

 beautiful Soronellas 'midst the beautiful scenes of Arizona. 



