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The pearlers collect various shells for pearls as shown by the 
tons of univalyes on the shore. e pearl shell most sought is 
close by, Dates grow best here in alkaline soil. e Sonora 
palm is ripe and 50 ft. high. none self-shedding. Got a smooth 
Jatropha with leaves purple-tipped and flowers drooping as in 
Vaccinium and cymose, bark gray, Bursera here has smooth 
white bark not shredding up and in fruit has copal swellings. The 
viejo cactus has 5 ribs normally, often almost spineless below. 
Humidity at 3 p.m. 70%. Have seen no Tecoma so far st ar- 
is 
an Erythea growing here which seems new and which I shall call 
E. Loretensis, It is glaucous, as is armata, petioles spineless, 
c Clear and still at 8a.m. Boys helping me dry dri- 
ers, crazy to do things. Humidity 67%, bar, normal, breeze now 
n.W. re are 2 ceiba trees here with spread of branchss 
olate. Night. Went east horseback to the hills and got pretiy 
sore from riding but got quite a bundle of specimens, 
hald, a good vsrietal name, St y big. 
3 ft high with habit of Stillingia, Sebastiania sarmen cose. | 
is a shrubby Suada here, ies high. 
high and woody almost throughout, apg 
Went to base of hills, but strata coarse there, | alee of 
some fossils like the living shells in the sea, strata in black mud. 
idi oon on hills 18 percent, te 
paerens she Humidity 68 percent, bar. normal, Primiera 
Agua ¥ miles west of Loreto in the ee of ae ee ioe 
Pas g +48 Br ‘tation the sume 
nidity hera 28 percent. Vege pe —~ 
habetbgtimnn Engr seg Washingtonia common, Tecoma stans 
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