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ous oak ? Now an ash -with a mistletoe, Chilopsis, Celtis, live oaks 

 getting less. Second stc^, Populus getting red from the male catkins. 

 Still signs of frost t)n ground, Salix amygdaloides, Triads in bloom, 

 Platanus. Live oaks went out at about 3,000 feet altitude. Now 2,700 

 feet altitude. Brush getting green. Sambucus -all green. Turtle doves. 

 Populus in full flower. Grain starting. A Big mesquit 40 feet high and 

 2 feet diameter. 



Magdalena. Much salix amygdaloides. Flocks df blackbirds. Trixis 

 under the willows. Eucalyptus cultivated. 'Now crossing a stream of 

 about 10 second feet. Water cress. Big Tuna 10-15 Teet high, cultivated. 

 Oranges, olives. Nicofiana glauca. Quince trees. Olive trees loaded. 

 Much cardon (Cereus Pringlei ?) and bottle-brush opposite Magdalena, 

 We now have just passed Magdalena. Trixis angusfifolia, Sambucus is 

 really an evergreen. Have not seen "Larrea 7et but the flora is Tropical, 

 Bananas and figs. Castor oil bushes. Peas in bloom, Ash (Fraxinus) in 

 bloom. Helianthus annuus. 10 feet high. 



Lorazo, a little station. Larrea. Santana stafion. Cotton gin. Now 

 a low town bv the river on the open plain, Yermo. Quite a town. Low 



wrest 



Loria station. 



mines. Brush scattered, 



much grass. 



Carbo, Grain six inches high, long-leaved Encelia, Sphaeralc^a 

 angustifolia in bloom. Encltia cordiTolia 'in ^bloom. Here is where we 

 see the first Fouquieria peninsularis, F. splendens is common from tbt' 

 north to Magdalena. Bursera (copal) here, 



HermosiEo. Saw the first big dogwood flowered -tree about 20 miles 

 norfii of here. Wheat in head here. They have had some rain lately. 



3 p.m. Kilometer 280, south of Nogales. nVarm and dry, Popuhis 



leaves still partly on. 

 Guaym 



today (J-anuary 



_ very dry. Got verv little. Still and warm. 

 " Guaymas, January 26, 1927. Hired a launch to take me over to the 

 mouth of the bay. Got many plants there on the 'islands. Oinnt cardon 

 (Cereus PringM) in a forest on the east end of island near mouth. Saw 

 four! masses of them on the north end of the 'island, where the navj- yard 

 is. Saw no ferns. The Cereus Thurberi is larger here. The flowers of 

 C. Pringlei are short and not much expanded. The form on the island 

 has branches near the base or even cSfitn at the base. Saw also several 

 Echinocactus with yellow and smooth fruit and no wool, with spmes but 

 little flattened and straight or hooked, plants 2-6 feet Jiigh, a foot o' 

 more thick, fibs not spiral, has no small lateral spines to speak of. 

 There i& also a Mamillariai here, common, and is rarely 6 mches J^J^h. 



Near Vicam, January 27, 1927. Cerus Pringlei vanes considerably, 

 and some forms appear to resemble C. giganteus somewhat, hut the tvo 

 fan always be separated by the greenish- white flowers and smooth pods of 

 P?.«ranteus, and flie :bladt-purple flowers and great burrs of f-uii of 



Prinfilei. 



Oro2 station. Hei^ ihej 



fort with nrcu1;tr 



