lls CLONFRIBULIONS TO WESTERN BUOTA?+1 
uatives Lo gather with eatables at train time. The maximum ele 
vuitun on Lue way here was eu ft. : 
Nov. 29. Wil dry plants aud pack up preparatory to going 
home tomorrow, Yesterday was my last duy of botanizing. 
bougut for my daughter, Mildred, a beautiful Mexican serape for 
30 pesos. ‘lo the south of the truck ut OUrendaiu is a secllon 
house, and here and there over the prairie is a Conspicuous Caca- 
lus, 3-5 ft. bigh, with the same kiut of leaves as the one at La 
Burrauca, but with big white flowers aud is a very mmterestuug 
pant, iewv es erect like the compass plant. The formation seems 
wo be au impalpable yoleanic woii that slakes in waier making 1b 
vpwiescent like vlacial water. Saw the firss Piens aquilina on 
the steep slopes of the creek here, and in the bottoman Eryngium 
with bruud aud undissected leaves, im wet piuces is a Downingia, 
The dry prairie has tufte of a cyperaceous plant and 2-4 sp. of 
5 . ‘The grasses are Epicampes, Aristida, Muhienbergia 
and Sporobolus, and in the wet places are paspaloids the mesa 
vegetation is rater scanty, indicating less moisture and poor 5011. 
Toe usuai Hyptis is frequent, and also some Jabiates, Tuna scarce, 
saw at Guadalajara some tields of wheat. The country has scat- 
tered volcanoes and big plains and low mts. covered scantily with 
liveowks and long-leaved pines. 
Noy. 30, 84a. m, All set to go, packed up and ready. Been 
here 17 days. Gave the girl a peso for being so efficient while on 
the job of caring for room. weather clear and still. Got off all 
ok. after some rushing. Got a seat inthe first class car with a Mex- 
ican afraid of propaganda, Time to go but nothing doing. We 
change time here from loeal to Pacific. Acatlan, a small town at 
left of @ voleano. Much Agave cult. here. Now out of liveoaks 
@ cow and cut her all to pieces 
ec 1, Mazatlan,got here at 7am. in the dark and went to 
hotel Del Mar and rested all day. Slept some last night on train 
Weather is lovely, sea a little rough. 
c. 3, left Mazatlan at 5a. m. all set for Nogales and home, 
will soon be off, as we go most of the country looks wet and soggy 
beans 4 inches high, and plowing the fields is going on, here 1s 4 
very rank castor field for we are near the sea, now a little cardon. 
Culiacan, big cottonwoods along a river, Populus dimorpha? Gua- 
chil, quite a town, mts 4-5 miles east, 
: ec. 4, we are now north and east of Guaymas, had a good 
night’s sleep, getting colder. Querobabi, everything dead and dry 
and it looks frosty, clear and cold, grass everywhere but all dead, 
lumber houges and looks more American, a great plain, much 
cattle. Got to Nogales at noon and through the custom houses 
