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brusli without leaves. Tall grass. Amole. Much dead grass. Brush now 

 20 feet high. Tillandsia, witji long and red flowers. The amole has red 

 leaves. Com is tassled out, near by is more only a foot high, some 6 

 feet high. Now a towTi with a cathedral on the left. Baccharis viminea. 

 Very much long-leaved Encelia. Vines many. Bananas. Cattle. Tall 

 Malvaviscus herb 6-8 feet high with very small flowers. Now the frond- 

 like shrub again. Now girls with 6 foot long stalks of sugar cane. Nar- 

 row-leaves Lycium Mimosa sam6 as at Nogales. Now another very broad 

 leaved Mimosa. Yellow Lantana. Now see Mexicans with machetes. 



team, 



Mazatlan about 



5:15 p.m. Now sundown and getting dark, near sea level. Brush. 



February 8, 1927. Tepic. This is in the hills, 3,000 feet altitude, 

 and with hills 2,000-3,000 feet higher around it, grassed over and with 

 scattered trees on them. Gulches dense with brush or timber. Sod every- 

 wjiere. The bottoms of gulches are mostly narrow and moist, Adiantum 

 species on side walls on north slopes, also Selaginella and some Notlir*- 

 laena sinuata and another species. Gulches h^ve a rigid Pol)'podium nn.l 

 Aspidiura (long fronds over 2 feet long), also weak annual? ^^vrh 3*^ 

 Lobelia, Drymaria, labiates, etc. A big and shrubby Senecio, 10-15 feet 



high. Some Cucurbita 



Cype 



grass 



fruit Some Tillandsia. Saw a vine with a big 



3-cornered fruit 3-4 inches long. Now a Eupatorium shrub, a Brickelliu. 

 Strawberries ripe. They sell strips of fresh cocoanut meat for a cent c-ach 

 Sapindus. So faij I see no cactus. 



(centavo), also a round berry about the size of a gooseberrv, m^)y !"' 

 February 10, 1927. Tepic. Saw a few flat Opuntias yesterday, also 

 some Yucca australis, no Petaya cactus nor Mamillarias. Some of thi* 

 trees have ash-like leaves and bark like the oak but neither flower no- 

 fruit. There is a deep cut made by a ninoflf ditch from a ranch near hv 

 that is SO feet deep and 4 feet wide and mostly wnth vertical wnlls. 2 

 miles long, full of ferns and moss and Marchantia, Pol>T>odium, Adi- 

 antum 2 species, Aspidium, Notholaena, Gymnogramma, also mints an! 



fsnianiim. Lobelia. Soil i'^ 



Compositae, 

 sodded and wears only in tiie cuts 



mented 



ropes 



Have seen no wind 



milk. Water is good. They have a water system and electric iignts, mi 

 no .eras nor stoves in town so far as I can see. Streets are paved with 

 rounded or flattened cobblestones, and are worn concave in oits. AValL^ 

 of streets are of cement and 1-2 feet high, and narrow (sidewalks)^ 

 Streets narrow but straight mostly. Big cathedral. Big plazas full of 



flowers and trees, cocoanuts, bananas, etc. . , . v m 



Tepic, February 11, 1927. Went out toward the river ou the raiK 

 road bridge. Got a big bundle of stuff. Got in a swamp full of peculiar 

 Phragmites (?) like grass, and had to walk half a mi e m water up to 

 mv knees. Got some interesting things, such as Azolla, and Marsilea. 



The CTOund everywhere wet and soggy. Trapa everywhere m the w-ater. 



