116 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 1 5 



spans 



Rivi'T 



February 12, 1927. Went 



escent. Much frog-spittl 



on the bliiff near by. Rained a fine drizzle all day. Toward evening 

 the streets running with streams of dfrty water. Cold and raw. Had to 

 go to bed' at 4 p.m. to get warm. Every drier full and then some. Have 

 not yet reached to base of the mountains. 



February 13, 1927. Spent most of the day drvin? driers: slow work 

 because of clouds. People here are usually intelligent. Lowest class, 

 both sexes go without shoes or stockings and are dirty, but upper class 

 dress like Jiome folks. All women and girls seem to wear ti.qht drawers 

 and have skirt separate from waist, no caps nor bonnets. Many street 

 vendors on the comers and balconies or on covered ways .(verandas). 

 They have a tortilla-grinding mill here. See many women with bowh 

 full of dough. There are two big coquita trees in the Plaza (Attalia 

 cohun). They are 75 feet high, straight as a die, and with immense 

 1 avps and long spikes of fruit. Streets narrow. It is a place of 10,000 



people. Soliders at state house. Governor was deposed the other day, 



and no one seemed to care. Rained hard for a short time. 



Tepic, February 14, 1927. Went south to the foot of the mountain, 

 but got loaded up so that I had to turn back. Got poisoned by Ivy. 

 Saw a third species of Adianhin* today. Got one big tree. It is amaz- 

 ing how many species there are as I work over the ground, and am not 

 yet up to the mountain. 



Tepic, February 15, 1927. Took 



down 



eras'; in places 6 feet high, a Bealea ( ), also Bromus, Aristida, Phrae- 

 mites-like species, some Bbuteloua hirsuta, Mints, Compositae, some Adi- 

 antum m the open. A tree with oval and woolly leaves and Martynia- 

 t-oos flowers. Damp canons with a great leaved shrub with masses of 

 red be-rics and stinging hairs. Found two species of Pol>'podium growing 



r.- a tree. Got several new ferns, one Adiantum S feet high by 3 feet 



wirfp. Saw the usual one two feet high growing from a cliff. Saw an ant 

 nn?t that looked like a double handful of cow dung plastered on a tree 

 1 feet above the ground. Was full of black ants that fought like fury 

 :md stung hard: Hillsides a solid mass of plants. Grasses, Linum, 

 Lobelia, mints, Leguminosae, Erythraea, ferns, also a Pteris. Got a 

 tall LejTummous plant with habit of a mint. Selaginella in all canons and 

 also Marchantia, and some small mosses. There is a Hyptis like mint in 

 full bloom and also a big red Lobelia. Got very tired lugging my load 

 home. The days collection made a pile all that a set of straps could 

 hoid. Weather cTear and cool: Humidity very high all the time, heavy 



dew every night. Ocean haze all the time. Ocean 40 miles off to the 

 west. 



February 16, 1927. 

 If ia like our'i at home. 



today 



loea 



mild. Hunil^^-tv all day 85%. Tlic coqu.Jta !r in the park 'are about 



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