112 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Nov. 5, Boat left Santa Rosalia at 8.30 p. m. and got to Guaymas 
ut 6 a.m. Got off boat and to hotel by 8 a. m. Got mail at 
last. Very dry and warm here, no rain in a long time, clear and 
still. Am answering mail today, Hired a launch to go to mouth 
vf harbor and got a few things but too dry. In p.m. took auto 
to Miramar and Empalme around the hills to study palms to the 
north and west but foand none wild, very dry everywhere, Park- 
insonia aculeata on slopes and much mesquit, dense Cereus Prin- 
glei on islands but scarce elsewhere, C. gummosus scarce, Schottii 
the same species but less common though Larrea and Prosopis 
ure more common, Encelia farinosa is everywhere, Aplopappus 
diffusus is frequent, and so is Wislizenia in cult fields. 
Nov. 7. took baggage to depot for Mazatlan but agent refused to 
check ¥ of my bundles and said they must go by Express. As it 
was I had 100 lbs extra baggage for which he soaked me pienty, 
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lustle but not warm. The hotel porter is fine help, 50 years old 
and gray. It has been beautifully cloudy all day. 
Brandegee surely was wrong when he said Erythea Brandegei was 
common on the coast. The only fan-palm is Washingtonia. I 
suspect the stray ones I saw on the Lagunas in 1928 were Bran- 
vegei, aud [ saw but one little one at San Bartolo where he said 
clouds and much sheet lightning coming up from the s. w. and 
no wind. Went to station at 1 p, m. and it began to drip and got 
worse all the time. Train pulled out for Empalme at 12 where I 
had to change to Pullman. Moso proved to be a grafter and 
Cvsalpinia in flower. No grass. Things just coming’ into leaf, a 
tree, Aca cia? near kil. 718, Bombax, Capparis, no Fouquieria, . 
some Larrea, now an occasional Fouquieria in full leafas we go 
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going down river. 9.20 a. m. sugar cane and dates. San 
Blas Sonora, not the city on the coast; an old, old town. Coun-. 
try now looks pretty wet and soggy, much cylindropuntia now, .. 
Prosopis very common, Lysiloma, not candida. 10.15 a. m. It is 
raining again and somewhat chilly, still soggy, keeping near the 
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