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the trail comes 1exrest the river, and then back ‘o the top by 
1.30, and got a big and heavy load of stuff, 1[t took me till 4.30 
to get to the top and had to hurry some at that, was getting dark 
but I got home at 5..0, and after dark, really 6.30 and feel some 
tired. Nochangeit flora to speak of. Salix Bonplandiana 
was frequent on the ievees and also a big leguminous tree in 
flower but could not get any. It must be over 3 miles to the top. 
Completed my work in the barranca and am well pleased at its 
thoroughness as to the seasonal flora. Hada fine visit with an 
engineer, a graduate from Cornell, who knew all the old time 
men there and who lost all his property in the Mex. revolution. 
Nov. 26, they sell turnips here under the name of jicama 
Went down to Colonias today and got some stuff in p, m. on the 
elge of town by the R. R. went down town to get some old pa- 
pers for specimen shcets and got on the wrong car and landed at 
the market and had to take a cab home. 
N ov. I plan going to Empalme de Orendain on train. 
Yesterday I got Argemone Mexicana in flower with lemon-yellow 
bloom, 2-3 ft. high and apparently biennial: petals evanescent. 
Got Baccharis 4-6 ft. high. Nicotiana glauca is common and cult. 
The shiny-fruited Mimosa is a weak annual. Went to Orendain 
gun to botanize near by when a woman ; 
[had to wait till afternoon for 
train back but spent the time botanizing. All prairie here with 
2 sp. of oaks scattered on the hills. The big-leaved one, a tree 
orky bark in vertical ridges. 
the otheris a white oak and rarely if at all a tree Got some 
new Com posit, one 4 ft. D 
freights went south but so far today but 1 going north. Bar, is 
4800 ft. alt, No cactus bnt a few Tunas. humidity of the Gusd- — 
isjara region is 60-90 percent. This isa great piace for the 
