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sistent, differing from the deciduous cocoanuts, and do not turn down 

 until ready to fall off. Fruit cluster about 2 feet long, fruits about as 

 big as unshucked walnuts. The oak wood they sell here for fuel is 4-6 

 inches thick, heavy and close-grained, and slivers on splitting, is dark in 



color. Their leather made 

 make many sandals. 



good and they 



February 17, 1927. Got on train and all ready to start at 1:30 p.m. 

 bound for Ixtlan. Nothing but construction trains east of here. Had to 

 wait half a day for train from the north, then no first class car on train. 

 Sugar cane 6-7 feet high, ready to cut, old fruit in a panicle but seldom 

 5een. Grassy plain with black soil. Helianthus. Going east. Large 

 cattle, many. Now in rough country with oak forests, a .«mall river below. 

 Then we cross river on a high trestle. Now out on a grassy plain with 

 vegetation like that of the old Iowa prairies. This is at second station 

 out of Tepic. Two ponds of water. We are now lower down than Tepir 

 Trapa in the water, Bullrushes, Crotalaria herb in fields. Narrow-leaved 

 willows. Cereus Pringlei or a species like it but more branches and wn^i 

 fewer ribs (7-9). Now more arid and less grass. Tuna, yellow-no'VP'-H 

 tree with big flowers like the cornel in habit. :Much tuna-like Opuntia 

 5-10 feet high. Road now very twisty. Terra-Pclon (sounds like thi?) 



( ?) witli trunks tapering as in Thufberi 

 Much drier now, grass ?hort. Count. rv 



station. Cereus Pnngle: 



many, in full flower. 



rough again. Saw an Tierb whic)i seems to be full ot Di? gjoDC?e am 



racemose pods. Bursera with brown bark, but leafless. Very much flat 



Opuntia tuna, and about the size of the Cardon. Forests m the gulches. 



the rest grassed over. See some trees !n the distance that may be Cupres- 



sus or Tuniperus. . .„ • i 



Conde station. Large fields of Agaves planted. See an occasional 

 Cereus Thuiberi. and two species of bottle-brush cactus. Gras.s looks like 

 winter, as if it had" been frosted. Altitude still below that of Tej^c a^ 

 shown by barometer. Tall brush 10-20 feet high may be a Fouquiena 

 but has yellow apple on it (probably Crescentia alata). 



Titiklan statil Com in tassel. Watermelons. 3.500 feet altitude 

 Ahuacatlan station. Yellow-flowered bush a mile or so below on the 

 north on lava. Saw red flowered Asclepias in field. Argemone alba 

 common. Datura Stramonium. Nicotiana glauca is common all through 

 Mexico. Washingtonia Sonorae is cultivated here. ^fV^^'/^,^ 

 high, with trunk over a foot thick, flie flowers seem to be Vs/J^-P^"' 

 surface of joints is smooth and shining and dark-green, variably spm^ 

 Ixtlan. Streets are paved like Tepic. Can't be "^.^^ ^V^^f ^^.^^", 

 20 inches. Trails are very old, 10-15 feet wide, "f fV.^itK 4 path 

 parallel. Few roads suitable for autos or carts ^utos in town. All 

 hauling on trails is by oxen dragging lumber or logs or by ^ur^s pack^ 

 ing merchandise, firevvood. charcoal or forage trails near to«m fenced 

 in by stone walb. Rock is all eruptive mostly basalt. ^551 ^^^ ^^'"^^ 

 here on the market a black colored physalis also many ^'"^^. ^^ P!?^ "; 

 They cultivate a Crotalaria. There is a male date palm '^ *^ J^^^^J^ 

 feet 1.;.K .. ..T...C R.n,n«^ are raised here for the market, sugar cane, 



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