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Nearly two days were required to properly describe and care 
for the collections made at Preston’s, Ravine and La Honda. 
Some time also was devoted to the examination of specimens 
in the herbarium of the university. On the afternoon of Novem- 
ber 28, I lectured before the professors and students of the 
botanical department on the subject of poisonous and edible 
fungi. Professor Abrams entertained us at his home the same 
evening. The following day, the final shipment of specimens 
was made and we left for Los Angeles and Pasadena, arriving 
at the latter place in time to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with 
Mr. Daniel Wilson. 
Pasadena is blessed with a superb climate, and is the winter 
home of one hundred and twenty-five millionaires. The houses 
are scattered over the low hills at the foot of Mt. Lowe and Mt. 
Wilson, the street borders and large yards being filled with 
pepper-trees, palms, climbing roses, orange-trees, and a great 
variety of subtropical decorative plants. McClatchie, the my- 
cologist, lived here and made the largest existing collection of 
the mosses and fungi of southern California. 
On the morning of December 1, I left Pasadena on the “‘Cali- 
fornia Limited’’ for New York, passing quickly from the great, 
fertile San Bernardino Valley up to the sterile tableland sparsely 
clothed with yucca and sage-brush, and on through the boundless 
desert to the region of the Grand Cafion and the Petrified Forest, 
where huge trees of past ages lie embalmed in agate, thence 
through thickets of dwarf red cedar and pifion for hour after 
hour, across the continental divide, past the pueblos of various 
Indian tribes, over Raton Pass at an elevation of nearly 8,000 
feet, and down to the broad cultivated prairies again, with their 
wheat, corn, cattle, yucca, cottonwoods, jack-rabbits, and prairie- 
dog villages, until the Mississippi was reached at St. Louis. 
The journey was broken here to visit the Missouri Boetiad 
Garden and Washington University. The crowded collections 
of tender plants at the garden are to be housed next winter in a 
splendid new glasshouse 300 feet long and 60 feet high at the 
central dome, about equal in size to the famous Palm House at 
ew Gardens. The library is one of the best in the country, 
