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I-laccs in fields, mistletoe on Mcsquit. Ranch, black soil. Condalia ? 

 Megarrhiza. Immuris station, 2,700 feet altitude. Red-headed Mexican 

 woman. Mulberry tree, tall white Gnaphaliura, Eupatorium-leaved Brick- 

 ellia, more Ambrosia (like trifida), much Salix amygdaloides and Populus 

 Fremonti. Cross stream, 10 second feet. Ranch. Another Baccharis like 

 sergiloides, bamboo. 



Imuris station, 2,600 feet altitude. Town on mesa. Bacdiaris 



viminea. Small river 20 feet wide. Heavy flood damage evident, many 



cottonwoods down, flat badly washed. Erigeron Canadense species. Red 



Ipomeoea.^ Eucalyptus vimineus, a fruit looking like an apple but with 



an umbilicus (a quince), they call it vljos, and membrillos oranges^ 

 olives. 



Pierson station. 

 • San Igancio station. Now in wide vn-ley, much vegetation, getting 

 hot, ISIountains 2,000 feet high 5 to 10 miles off. Com. Soil very fer- 

 tile. Op"untia Tuna, many tree (black) wlilows, Sorgum Halapense. Red 

 and tall Mallow, 3-4 feet high. Ambrosia 10 feet high. Much Sambucus, 

 Membrillo trees all browsed up 5 feet from ground. Annual Bouteloua 

 (prostrata ?). Nicotiana glauca. Much Hymenoclea. Sugar cane. Com. 

 : ^ Magdalena, 2,300 feet altitude. Chaenactis, small leaf, Ambros:;* 

 psilostachya still here and there. Phoenix Canarieasis. Houses dilapi- 

 dated. Erect Cereus Schottii; Fouquieria used for fences, and growing?. 

 Cement works. Bamboo in flower in long spikes, another river coming in 

 from the east (Magdalena river). Black lava flows cracking up in square 

 blocks and forming vertical faces, O'puntia Tuna 20 feet high, cultivatefl. 

 Cultivated grapes, castor oil, com. A low Fouquieria. Thicket of Mes- 

 quit, Opuntia leptocaulis, big morning glory or leguminous vine. Opuntia 

 like^ leptocaulis but 3-5 feet high and branches thicker. Big and smooth 

 Atriplex shrub, canescens group. Salvia .sanguinea or Mimulus glu- 

 tinosa, red. Shrubbery on alluvial bench and slopes is dense. Eremorar- 

 pus or Altemanthera. Fences of Fouquieria. Cotton gin. 



Santa Ana station, 2,100 feet altitude. Little town of adobe, onf- 

 story house below the bench. One Fouquieria in bloom. Now 2,000 feet 

 altitude. Gutierrezia, Larrea brush still dense. Fouquieria in leaf. For- 

 est of Cereus giganteus. Little grass now. White Zinnia. Parr>'ella 

 shrub, may be a Dalea. Aster canescens. White Altemanther. More 

 grass now, bench land away from river now. Villenova, Ambrosia, Megar- 

 rhiza, mesquit, palo verde ? Olneya ? Boerhaavia, Cereus giganteu« 

 (may be Thurberi), tapers toward tip. Acacia 'Greggii, two species of 

 annual Bouteloua, flat Euphorbia, Cereus like Engelmanni but shorter. 

 Palo verde, Opuntia frutescens, O. Bigelovii but less spiny. Larrea in 

 bloom, Pectis, Baileya, large species. Much Cylindro-punlia now, Tri- 

 bulus (brick-colored species), mesquit dense, Opuntia leptocaulis 4-6 feet 

 bigh. Now on wide plain and mountains far off. Grass a foot high. 



Llano station, 2,200 feet altitude. Saw a 'Cuscuta on Tribulus. 

 Buzzards are coming in now. Some date palms. Thorny Rhamnacemis 

 shrub (not Condalia), Zizyphus ? Acacia, cats daw. Baccharis sergi- 

 loides, Hymenoclea, occasional mistletoe on Prosopis, Lippia, few grasses 



