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white BarE almost the color of the aspen and glaucous, coryrobosr topic 

 The humidity must be high here, but soil i$ dry. Here grows Cardi^ 

 ospennura Halicacabum, have seen no Larreft^ Tlierc is a prickly and 

 effct «hrub like Cerocarpus but leaves thin (Capparis ?). There' is a 

 yellow-spfned flat Opuntia. I saw one narrow-leaved Agave (Gold- 

 manni ?) on the other slope. Tltere are two species of Yucca, one 2-10 



h, with sessil inflorescence (iprobably «istralis). One is caespitos* 



' stalk* 2-3 feet long, green leavesj no threads, nwch like Mohay- 



ansis but shorter. This was on tlie other slope too 



Near Triunfo. Vegetation much taller tiian at San Antonio. Now a 

 place of 500 people more or less, but mine shut down. Agave Gold- 

 manni ? with very slender stems 15 feet high by an inch wide, with 

 racemes of few bunches of glaucous Aowcts. Leaves 14-30 inches long, 

 2-5 inches wide, with sharp black spines and an inch apart, on the mar- 

 jp'ns are small and black calluses representing prickles, leaves dark-greep 

 ' smootB, caespitose plants, growing about eight miles south 



among the brush. There is a Prosopis-like shrub (Pithccollobium) with 

 ft^ort and wide black pods. Nicotiana glauca, N. trigonophylla, Ambrosia 

 fFrans<>n» Ambrosioides) , also the long-leaved shrub I called Franseria 



Hcrmosillo, which is an Encelia or Vigueria. Mangle on 



There are the following Cercus, Uie big cardon, 



on 



species with few branches 



with 



ortf of very big chestnut burrs, then there is the usual 13-ribbed species. 

 ^.'T ?„*. • caespitose and very low Cereus after the Engelmanni 

 ^m- All the above on November U, 1926. 



^ November 15, 1926, La Paz. Cultivated bush cotton, Gos.«»ypiura 

 ".^roadense. grows near hotel, and is perennial at least, also Tamarix. the 

 feathery species (Italfca). Tamarindus cultivated. Huamuchila. Pit^^^ 

 <-a.ob.um boreale sugar cane, die Climbing Asparagus, cultivated pepp^ric 

 'n-M. tomatoes beans, lettuce, sweet potatoes, dates, grapes, cocoan"^*, 

 roi«s, chrysanthemums,- Zinnia, Helianthus annuus, Agave vexans in 



•*'^, f",f"."*- "^S*^* ^""s has glaucous flowers, 3-10 in a cluster. 

 ,:y;^r.*\. bell-shaped below • - - ' 



AlT:l?'^'l't\ ^^ *^r ^ »'°<& lo^K. greenish or whitish, erect 



;^r.th? ^8^*-*^^=^"^? 1 i«ch long by 2 mm. wide, versatile, obtuse, 

 M ^n/ !?S* i ^"'^ *J ^^"« "^ P^-^^th' P^T^lish above as. is tbe, 



i • mm tnr±? '\^^ ?'^''^' »» r<*« « ^^r 2 «!«. long, rarely 

 * mm. loner, pods elliptical and not at aB contracted in- middle when, 



'"^•rh wfth'^t? ^y Cucurbit vine hanging from the low trees 10 feet. 

 -'?h with wal, hollow »d fruit, but i^en green is spotted preen, climb- - 



li foT ste^'1o% ?rJ* * ^orophXn'Zb vS; sLl7r and with 



F«mln:?„ .iT ^^'^f,"^ l^^«te. PorophyHum has a stronif odor. 

 r::yTZ' ntolT"^ ^"'^" ^^^^^ (CereSs'pringlei) I find the ribs 



nl.h^'^^ll^'^l^u^l' ^""^ » ^'g^ ^^ wihd for two days'.nd 

 night>. The cotton bush that grows here is about 5 feet hi^h and widely 



