tut CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
coming in, no Yuccas nor Erytheas, Cereus Thurberi and gum: 
mosus also absent; water rather much in the volcanic ash seeps 
but is good and has a Polygonum in it like the Cabo one, and 
unother aqnatic.- Eustomais here, also Cyperus, Eleocharis and 
Cenchrus, no grasses to speak of bus devil grass. Olneya is com- 
inon from Loreto up. Dates, sweet lemons, limes, oranges man- 
gos, guavas and pomegranates are grown here, There are 2 Pop- 
uins Premonti, Hills very dry. Saw one specimen of the tufted 
Cubo Cereus with flowers red and 1.5 inch wide, also Mamillaria 
Pocelgeri is frequent. They havea big and warty sweet Jemon 
with thick skin and another with big navel that are sweet. Their 
oranges are beset by a chocolate scale which yellows them consid- 
erably too early, trees 40-50 ft. high and full of fruit. Figs and 
grapes are out of season. Much Washingtonia cult. here. 
There ure several ponds with Typha and Scirpus in them aud one 
Cyperus and Seymeria. In the orchard are 2 Euphorbias: alse 
10, the viejo mostly 5, The soil is volcanic in horizontal flows. 
Hvening. Wenc through the garden twice and got a great load 
an oval seed, berry, or drupe, Baccharis sergiloides just in flow- 
ver. very graceful as in Adenostoma sparsiflorum, about § ft. high, 
in bottoms and moist places, Euenide is on sandy bottoms and 
smooth and green fruit striped, stems 20 ft. plus long. There is 
much palo blinco. 
ct. 20 Humidity 88 %, bar. high. Clear and still, will be hot. 
Left my bundles here while I went horseback up the creek to the 
upper ranches. The Iuca ranch is 800 ft. alt. Very dry here, 
with water in the gulch. Coming back I got an Agave on the 
rocks, also Mamillaria Poselgeri. Humidity 70 percent. My mo- 
ela, Turnera. No grass here, sheeped ont. Magnificent scenery 
: | g with cottony seeds and is 2- 
valved, the flowering stalk is 10-15 inches long and at last florif- 
