JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. X11 February, 1911. No. 134. 
REPORT ON RECENT COLLECTIONS IN MEXICO. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF 
Sir: I have the honor of submitting the following report of 
some collecting which I succeeded in doing at odd times during 
June, July, and August last, while occupied in Mexico by the 
Consolidated Palo aaa Rubber Compan 
During the latter part of June, I spent a few days in the moun- 
tains at Empalme de Gonzales, Guanajuato, and collected 
herbarium specimens of about 60 species. The most interesting 
feature of this flora is a great variety of species of Opuntia, some 
of them very large indeed. The salies bute of deer ie 
which is very abundant here, is an i roduct. 
There is here also a very extensive growth of es aan 
fuluum, and the hills are covered with a great variety of species of 
Terebinthus. From this point I sent homea number of living cac- 
tuses, as well as a number of museum specimens of fresh fruits. 
Here also I collected fruiting specimens of the little-known 
Mae ashe 
le day was sent in collecting in the mountains between 
Mexico City and Toluca and herbarium specimens of about 
fifty species were obtained. Museum specimens of edible 
fungi were here obtained, two species not having been previously 
recorded as edible. 
Three days were spent in the Limon Mountain region near 
Balsas, Guerrero, where herbarium specimens of about fifty 
species were collected, as well as an interesting lot of native edible 
fruits, in jars, for our museum. 
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