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severely on both days of my stay, but I collected steadily and 
secured large returns, probably more than one hundred species. 
This collection would doubtless have done well in spite of ad- 
verse conditions but for the fact that when I left I became sepa- 
rated from my driers. My collections had now become so heavy 
and bulky that I could not carry everything and I sent my driers 
on by express. The express company failed to forward them 
on the same train that carried me. Washouts then occurred 
and there was an interruption of train service for three days. 
Although my specimens suffered severely, I managed to save 
nearly all of them in presentable condition. My important object 
in stopping at Williams was to collect a species of Berberis and 
ne of Cimicifuga, which I had seen in the mountains there in 
ae I found both localities but deforestation had destroyed 
the Cimecifuga. I collected the Berberis root and also the roots 
of a Frasera and of an interesting kind of angelica-root, 
having almost the exact odor and taste of the European drug. 
On this mountain I found the greatest abundance of a very large 
and delicious wild gooseberry with deep red spiny fruit (G. pine- 
torum). Fine museum specimens were obtained, as well as seeds 
for cultivation. In Johnson’s Cafion, twelve miles west of Williams, 
I collected museum material represented by a species of grape, a 
walnut, and two cherries, besides the roots of a species of Berberis. 
My next stop was at Adamana, Ariz., September 1, the special 
object being to visit the petrified ee of the region and to 
secure specimens of a number of wild food plants used by the 
Indians of that desert. I succeeded in the former attempt, ob- 
taining a nice collection of petrified wood, but was disappointed in 
the second, as these products grew at too distant a point for me 
to visit. The only economic material here obtained was a species 
of Grindelia and an Atriplex. The region yielded only about 
fifty species of plants, as the weather was quite dry. Washouts 
in the mountains west, referred to above, delayed my departure 
for two days, after which I went on to Albuquerque, N.M. This 
time I was careful to take my driers with me, which proved a very 
useful precaution, since washouts again occurred, and there was 
no train for several days. At Albuquerque the country was very 
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