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ne lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes and sweet potatoes 



wood 



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They have many player pianoes 

 February 20, 1927, all packed and on train for La Barranca. Hot 



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today. Farranca is a little place with _ 

 a kind of a place to stop. Very dry and hot here, more so than at Ixt- 

 Ian. Altitude about 4,000 feet. Hills around are about 1,000 to 2,000 

 feet high and rather flat-topped, covered with pine and oak woods, all 

 grassed over, grass short. Volcanic soil. Erosion gnat. The barranca is 

 to the east and south and is 1,000 to 2,000 feet deep and covered ^vith 



bamboo __ _ ^__, 



grass 3-5" feet higH ih btmches. Very much Tuna oi 

 more or less high, with shiny and dark-green bark. 

 Cereus Pringlei and Thurberi, 



some 



canons 



bloom 



7 - — -^ — - - 



(Loranthus). 



•gray barked one also occurs 



hooks. Tuna will soon 

 bark is the more com- 



true Rhodo 



dcndron on it The Martyniaceous tree with big spines on the old trunk 

 bas a cucumber-like fruit bearing cotton v «**>»!<;. Sn it ic a 



Bombax 



Mimosa (biuncifera ?). Many trees ar 

 ' and big leaves (Ficus). . Bananas grow 

 lemons. There is a small native 



canons wfthout threads on the leaves, which are 1.5 feet long, and with 

 small trunk. There is a Yucca .(australis ?). There is a red leaved 

 A^ave. The 3-comered Cereus (Schottii ?) on cliffs, also one on trees, 

 also a Pedilanthus. Very hot and dry here. Some yellow-flowered Comel- 

 bke trees. BUrsera is leafless and starting to flower. Half a dozen 

 51>ecies of ferns, 3 Adiatums, I Polypodium, Aneimia Mexicana, Aspidium 

 (a large one), 3 species of Selaginella, one is lepidopihylla. At the springs 

 m the barranca is a Juncus like Balticus, a Cyperus, a Paspalum, several 

 Iirhens, and 3-4 epiphytic orchids, Tfllandsia but none in bloom. Trees 

 are rarely 20 feet high except in gulches, oaks on slopes 20 feet witli big 

 leaves, no fruit. 



February 23, 1927. Left barranca in the evening and got to 'lepic 

 at 10 p.m. Next. day started for Acaponeta. Weather clear. Baccharis 

 yiramea. Much yeHow composit (Eupatorium ?). Trapa. Echinodorus 

 m water as we cross the river. Red Agave (may be amole). Cane fields, 

 Nogales Mimosa. Much reed-like ^rass on river, Trixis. Big fig trees. 

 Low white flowered Mimosa. Grass everywhere. A little lake with opa- 

 lescent water whicH may be due to soap (women washing in it). Now 



u i dL t"^ ^""^ °^ ^"^^^ ^^^« shrubbery coming in like Tepic 

 stun. Ked Lantana, Convolvulus or Impomoea. Much ocean haze, 

 Enceha. Cane 8 feet high. Now in brush 20 feet high. Now a beau- 

 tiful bush m full flower like a red bud (Cercis). Gr^sy slopes, Cornel 



Labos. Women with soap on bushes. Red bud in leaf, springs, 

 grass, sugar cane. Red soil. Hauling cane with 6 mules, two behind 



