CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 115 
Pomona are here. Night, spent 3 hours botanizing to the east 
but did not get out of the city, but gota lot of stuff, There are 
bananas here and all sorts of fruit. they say it frosts some here 
Down town are places where they sell Cal. oranges, Woodbride- 
and Wenatchee Wash. apples. These are the best fruit on the 
market, Very cloudy and a little drippy in p. m. with very low 
clouds. Did not get tired. . 
Nov. 16. Yesterday at 8.30 a..m. the Parkers and I took an 
auto ride to La Barranca, and I stayed and they returned. I went 
dvwn the tram a way and then took a trail and soon came out on 
a 6-foot way paved with cobblestones leading down to the bottom 
an old highway and still very much used for it was full of wayfar- 
ers. It is the most tortuous one I ever was on, skirting precipices 
1 got only half a mile before I was loaded to the ground with spec- 
imens, a very rich flora of all kinds including grasses and shrubs, 
; . Natholena, 1 sp. Abiantum, 1 sp- Pellaa, 3 sp. 
Selaginella, Mentzelia?, Rhynchosia atropurpurea, several sp. Da- 
aand Salvia. Isurely got loaded by 3 p.m i on me 
twice, then started back lugging my load, At the top there 
were 3 eating booths where I[ got a bite to eat, and then left my 
load by the fence to go and phone for an auto at the house, but 
there wus no phone there, but they said an auto would be at the 
booths for passengers at 25 cts: each. I was too tired to walk the 
5 miles home and so went back to the huts where they said an 
auto would be there in half an hour: so I stooped to tie my bun- 
dle better when a machine came in. he driver said in Englis! 
Get in” which I did and was whisked home, I offered him 50 
cts extra to take me to the Villa which he accepted and landed 
me there at 4.30. I arranged with him to come for me Monday. 
Sunday noon. I went to visit Prof Puga at his home at Sonata 
Guierra No 30 and visited an hour and saw his herbarium in little 
books and poorly named by Rose. He is a pharmacist in college. 
Got all but the Apocynaceous tree with long white flowers. Not 
all ferns are in condition to collect, one more trip will take me to 
the bottom, Weather fine all day. Some liveoaks appear on the 
benches but no pines. Nov. 20 Cold and clear this a. m., got 
a good rest, will loaf the rest of the day, spent forenoon in drying 
all my plants of yesterday in driers and will try to change som~ 
this p. m, butis clouding up- Amaill ready for another day at the 
barranca. The river that comes from the n. e. is the Lermo but 
the Sentiago comes from lake Chapala. 
Nov. 19 auto man did not show up. I waited till ten and 
then phoned for another and got down half way and got another 
load of stuff, then back to the top where another auto took me 
home, Got some teosinte today, evidently a native of ree ky slopes as 
corn grows wild here, Got » new sp of Clematis near the top 
