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at Golden, at an elevation of 6,000 feet. From Golden we 
made a trip through one of the neighboring canyons and secured, 
among other specimens, a number of interesting leaf-parasites. 
The principal collecting trip of our entire stay in Colorado 
was in the Geneva Creek Canyon, a branch of the Platt River 
Canyon. This is reached by taking the narrow-gauge line of the 
Fic. 37. French Gulch one-half mile above the cabin. This is one of t 
polches in which a number of interesting fungi were collected. The trees in the 
foreground are aspen (Populus tremuloides) 
Colorado and Southern Railway, which ascends the canyon by 
keeping close to the river, a swift-flowing, clear stream which 
as it falls over the rocks adds much to the beauty of the natural 
scenery of the canyon. Leaving Denver in the morning, we 
arrived at Grant about noon, a distance of nearly one hundred 
miles from Denver. From this point we ascended the Geneva 
Creek Canyon by team to a distance of three miles. Here be- 
tween two mountain streams is a small park in which a number 
of log cabins had been built to serve as temporary homes for 
summer resorters, and in one of these cabins we made our home 
for ten days. Our cabin was surrounded by numerous gulches 
