116 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
There are many self-pruning Washintonias here with varietal 
leaves of all forms, but no Erytheas, all cult. 
Nov. 20, went to the barranca this a. m., without breakfast to 
catch car at plaza. Got down about a mile before I was loaded 
gain It was hard work to lug back up at 2.30, but an auto 
was waiting so that I got home by 4 p. m. and feel tired. Foun 
« peculiar Liabrum and all sorts of atuff, but did not get the 
Apocynaceons tree, for I had too much to carry as it was, Gots 
big Triumfetta and a Dalea and feel fagged. Weather fine all 
day. Got big Desmodium and a peculiar Composite, Verbesina 
crocata, straggling upward over bushes as our Nemophila aurits 
does, but a shrub, with 3-winged stems, 6-8 ft. high and almost 6 
vine and spreads all over and is coarse. clear now. Wil 
spend rest of daychanging driers. Slept well but had a hard time 
gving to sleep. 
Nov. 21, at 8 a. m. went to the barranca, getting there at 9 
and got dwn to the meadows and botanized onthe north. Got 
a loud of stuff, 3-5 grasses and the Tripsacum and a tall Andro- 
pogon, cane-like, also the Apocynaceous tree. Will have at the 
leust one more day there before I get tothe bottom. ‘There is 
Composite, allied to Heclastocleis but not yet in flower. The mea- 
dows have more species than I expected to find. Got a tall Adi- 
antum, and home by 3 p,m. Will not go out again today for I 
feel tired. 
Noy. 22, am quite rested up. Went down to get a cover for 
my broken h ygrometer, shops not opon yet. Took off a great lot 
of driers this a.m. In p. m. went east to city outskirts and got 
loaded down with 2 Cucurbs., one like a cross between a cucum- 
ber and watermelon, with a fruit 2 inches long and striped and 
smooth: the other a very spiny Echinooystis, creeping herbs. 
Nov, 23, put plants in press Almost clear, and cold. Put 
& rubber sponge in helmit for use against heat: Went to La Bar- 
ranca by 9 a.m. and got down to and through the meadows on 
the south and got everything there, no ferns. One moreday and 
[ will be chrough. Weather fine but somewhat cloudy. Found 
Nov. 25, put plants in press. It is nearly clear today, and 
cold.bar. normal. Got oat to the berranca by 8°30 and went 
at once to the bottom at power plant and then south to where 
