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There is the usual profusion of vegetables, fruits, and flowers, 
with dried meats and peppers, nuts, sweets, cereals and beans, 
Artichokes, resembling misshapen white turnips, were abundant. 
Muskmelons, small watermelons, red radishes 12 to 18 inches 
long, olives, pads of nopal cactus, Italian chestnuts, oysters, and 
turtles were among the specialties. The flower girls offered 
roses, violets, Easter lilies, gardenias, camellias, pinks, pansies, 
geraniums, azaleas, wreaths of moss, potted plants, and packages 
of various flower seeds. 
On the afternoon of January 14, we left Orizaba, at an eleva- 
tion of 2,700 feet, arriving at 5 P. M., just after the heavy storm 
which had swept the Eastern Slope for about a week. On ac- 
count of this rather unusual general rain, I decided to take advan- 
ingly, I left early the following morning by the Veracruz and 
Isthmus Railway for Motzorongo, 25 miles southeast of Cordoba, 
at an elevation of only 800 feet, where I secured the a col- 
lection obtained during any single day while in Mex 
Motzorongo is in the midst of a sugar plantation eae by the 
Motzorongo Company, of which Mr. E. E. Winsch is manager. 
I was received with great cordiality by Mr. Wiinsch and advised 
to try first the steep ridge on the west of the valley, where con- 
siderable cutting had been done to obtain firewood for the sugar- 
mill. I found the dead logs and the floor of the dense virgin 
forest covering the side and summit of this ridge, which rises 600 
feet or more above the valley, teeming with fungi of the most in- 
teresting kinds, and I devoted the entire day to this locality, with- 
out stopping for food or water until shortly before the returning 
train was due. 
I was compelled to spend the next day in working up this col- 
lection, but the day following, leaving Mrs. Murrill in charge of 
the drying, I went in the same direction as far as Xuchiles, 15 
miles from Cordoba, at an elevation of about 1,500 feet, and col- 
lected during the forenoon in the coffee and banana plantations 
along the south bank of the Rio Blanco, where there was con- 
siderable dead wood left from the original forest. In the after- 
