204 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [SEPTEMBER 
rooted Peruvian cotton is able to maintain itself for seven years in this 
dried-out river bed and yields profitable crops of the colored, short 
staple cotton, which is used as an adulterant for wool, occupying a 
place in the wool rather than the cotton market. A stroll to the toy 
of the nearest hill at Payta showed plainly that the rain had been a 
heavy one, for, scattered over the nearly level table land were the hard 
baked remains of unmistakable mud puddles. In these, strange as it 
Fic. 1.— Photograph of garden at Mollendo, produced by irrigaio® 
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seemed to us, no plants were found, although scattered owe 
sand and gravel all about were young seedlings and even acts 
grasses. ust: 
The flora of Payta would not be a difficult one to write up “al 
ively, provided one were on the spot at the right time. _ sti 
pamphlet we were able to press all the phanerogamous P plan 
were found, without any difficulty. These plants com 
whose seeds must have remained dormant since the las 
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years before, and perennials which have kept alive by 
