SZ CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 ' 



Ilermosiinoi Ortii, wKich was ar nrililary cump. There we switclied three 

 cars of soldiers on the train to jcotect us from th? Yaquis- The .soldiers 

 looked like country boys in their bare feet, with v-hite 

 wmbrero, and a gun and cartridge belt and machete. 



deadly 



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cartridge belt and machete. About all they can 

 around. The Indians sav tliev can't shoot. Thcv seem 



Then we rolled on to the beautiful Hermosillo, the capital of the 



State of Sonora, a city of 10,000 people, sftuated on a rise on the flanks 



of a marble mountain that drops down to the Magdalena river. There are 



extensive ranches here, with supar cane, corn fields, orchards and oranges, 



dates, atnd fruit ttcesi Cultivation is slovenly as usual, and devil grass is 



everywhere. The mountain is a conical uplift, perhaps 2,000 feet high, 



pnd covered witji brush, and many interesting plants. Practically a week 



v"a» spent on this mountain before 1 had collected all its species. Then 



?n opportunity to visit a mine, some 20 miles out toward the Yaqui region, 



inid in the Yaqui comitry, came and I rode out there and saw for the 



f'vt time me beautiful Lysiloma Candida with its waving wands of 

 fo'iage. 



At Herraosillo I lost my botanical note-book and all mv papers, pass- 

 ix)rt, etc. Believing that they had been stolen from mv room while I was 

 at lunch, I went to the Secretary of State, reported my loss and a^ked for 

 a new passport. He replied that if I would get some one to identify me 



paper 



d have to get others if I visited o 

 taken a letter of introduction from 



Hermosillo. So I appealed 



I 



Secretary, whom he personally knew. So we went to the office to fix 

 tinngs up and the Secretary refused to take the minister's identification. 



t ^np^MO thQf all ♦Va -1«- . -- . 1 



the dergy 

 ^at the white ministers had" been expelled 

 occurred to me fiiat this would make anv 



» 



engineer 

 and 



Ger- 

 Sol 



voT" vv?i iJ. ""^ f''^- ^^ ^^P^^^d' "Sure, I will go and lie for 

 nrnrn. T TT ^ """^ "'^ ^^"^ *° ^'^ ^^^ "^^^ ^"t this was his Way of 



putting 



expert 



wen in .nH TUl T^ ^ *^" "^^ °^ *« Secretary of tSate, aiid he 

 7Ct i\^\u ■ t ^c'^'i^"^ '^^' ^' ^^^ ^"^^ n^e all his life, and 



that J was all right. So I eot mv paper. About 



^?Jr,f .f^2i.!°^^?« sot a lett;r_and package 



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Hennosillo, who wrote that he was out on the mountain 

 "nT b«auTe 'hfdS f f v""^^ T ^"^^^ ^^*^"^d around onthe ground. 

 ?he coE zlttn^l ^°'' ""^''l ^ ^^^' ^' ^^"ded to send them to 

 ^L 7:^\ ^ n *''' '* appeared that he had heard of my being in the 



leL^uSr ^^°^^T*""-'^ "^^^^^^^' ^^^- Elias. The^eceip^ of the 



^rder?d aT' T'^'^J'^'^^ f^ ^' ''^^'^' ^^' ^^ar that I had been 



rS'l t^LT f''T^ ^ ^''''' ^'^ ^^ t« P^of. Munz came 

 «n which I narrated tfie Toss of my papers, supposedly bv theft, but actu- 



