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WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 



too but less common. The 



corolla IS here but low. Marsilea covers the eround in places Liree 

 patches. ,^ i ■ . 



_^ Near Culiacan. Haifa mile from the sea; Several new Cereus here. 

 There is a shrub' with briIirant->'elIow f^vigs, leafless now. Bombax, 

 Cereus Pringlei: Brush' now low. Amole with purple leaves. 



Ojabe (?) station, 675 kilometers: Caesalpinia pallida, Yellow 

 Lantana. Rochella. Brush now about IS feet high. 



Tanques station, 698 kilometers. Much charcoal here. Fouqueria 

 peninsulans Below a way I saw some Parkinsonia aculeata, first seen so 

 tar. Sky-blue-flowered Solanum, no white ones. Have passed through 

 many miles of shrub that looks like Lysiloma, with many white stems 



corjTiibose 



Yi by Va inches, a lesum 



^npis. Passed great globose balls (?) of a night-blooming 

 flowered tree, like that at Barranea. About 75 miles south .x v.u.x.uu 

 snw three of Jhem. Parkinsonia more frequent now. Hot, traveling fast. 

 V^lneya. Getting drier fast and hotter. Now at Culican. Town; is on 



Culican 



vll T '.^^""^ H *' "'''''• ^bout 30 miles north of Don got a 

 F.n!^lA^r? ,T.^5jT-^s. Capparis. There is a bri II i ant-pink flowered 

 qln PI ^ ^"S^. ^^^' ^' "°^ Antigonum leptopus. Saw it first near 



»>An ri/r\«l, i-inmnrpna p^nin 



fruit. Palo verde common here, also Cereu.9 Thurberi: 



Mesq 



Navafoa, Cafeme. 



blooming season. Very dry. 



I 



dry. Encelia cordi- 



foI.ambW lines now Palo verde, OIneya, much mesquit. 



reret.. Sn^! T^ °^ ^'^^^ ^'' ^^"^^ ^^^^ looks like the true 

 inches Sn' -T '" v^ ^"^* °^ ^°^*^ ^^'^^. ^^^'^t and vntbl few 

 o flow ; ';l"ir !l5 ^T ^^ -' '"^'^^ sterns as in Pringlei, but 



woodpecker 



morp oTifT ^T.^Ti^ . ^ .— ^-.^ aiA uuniv^ rius ai leasi i:j, may ur 



Lencljo. He 



F'-an eria can.,, r' ?f r '''°. ^"^'''"^'^ ^^^^ ^^'^^^ ''-^'^^'^^- Long-leaved 



littrna'tbZ' ^if^'^^t^usCalifomicusC?). Cereus Pringlei getting 



^o^ ml iTJ^- ^^P""\'V^^P^«<^?"^is in bloom, the flowers ^lemon-yol- 



fMni^af "'^ Ecgumfnosae in bloom. Mesquit nearly in 



Saturday morning. Left Gua)-mas about 8 p m 

 ny first eood tp^\ Vo,., n „ _ _ , ^ ° ?• . ■ 



Took sleeper and 

 Masrdalena. Hot 



and cVir V^rv r^ t, e ,, *"^ ""^ "^^ oelow Magda ena, JHoi 



TMe S JbLr^lluif: 7t''°"'="* P''^".' '■■^^ Senecfo Douglas,!. 

 Mafdalena saw R^in,., u' ^.""^ ever>i»Here. A little way above 



h 4 Pcacii a^d n, '"^"fP^'^'. Sambucus glauca. Gram a foot 

 Haf -co™! n „°;l5 J ',""?>"• Bush JHe_ Ba°cchans but flowers in 



PI 



rymbs and vellbw fTrixi.^ q7 ^i^e i^accnans Dut flowe 



ro maior it TvtTVn i^A^^ ^"""^ ^^^W heading out. I 

 t T.T^ ^t Ixtlan and Acappneta and also b^Tmv K,..T.= 



saw 

 Cot- 



ton woods just comincT fnto bloom Tfxr T ^t"* ^^^""''^ ■^^-^^^'- ^''^' 

 Got t6 NocaTes at 1 30 n m T t ^^'"^^^'- ^° ^^^'^ vegetation out. 

 XT. ,-„..„;:'": .f\..;"^^ P-"^- ^ook an hour to get ba^c^.^e over to U. S. 



No inspection at either plac 



Ok 



took 



