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noon, I followed the railroad north as far as the Seven Waters 
and then cut across the pastures and through the coffee groves 
for several miles to Cuichapa, where I boarded the 5 P. M. train 
for Cordoba, returning with nearly as many specimens as on the 
previous trip. 
This whole region about Cordoba is of great botanical inter- 
est, and is easily accessible by railways running in four different 
directions. In the immediate vicinity, are plantations of sugar- 
cane, bananas, pineapples, mangoes, coffee, and tobacco; while 
the town itself, with only 7,000 inhabitants, can hardly be seen 
from a distance on account of the gardens and groves which 
surround it. 
Late in the afternoon of January 19, we left Cordoba for Vera- 
cruz, where our steamer awaited us. The station was filled with 
crowds of natives, some of them from the interesting Indian village 
of Amatlan, with segments of bamboo containing tuberoses and 
bunches of the best banana, the fat, yellow Dominico, which, un- 
fortunately, cannot be shipped more than a few miles 
The journey to Veracruz was made mostly after nigntall At 
El Potrero, there are mountains which should furnish good col- 
lecting for a day, at least; and the ravines about Atoyac might 
the coast, the last range of blue hills having been left behin 
soon after leaving Atoyac. 
On the morning of January 21, we embarked on the S. S. 
“Esperanza” with all of our collections, comprising 1,250 num- 
bers, or about 3,300 specimens, of fungi, besides some mosses 
and other miscellaneous plants, and, after being held inside the 
breakwater for twelve hours by a terrific “‘norther,” started for 
New York, arriving January 209. : 
It will be some time before this collection of fungi can be 
thoroughly examined, but it is estimated that half of the species 
have not been reported before from Mexico, and that between 
fifty and one hundred are undescribed. 
Respectfully submitted, 
W. A. MurriLt, 
Assistant Director. 
