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dry, so that I could get but little herbarium or museum material. 
I sent home, however, several interesting living plants and ob- 
tained museum material of an edible Opuntia fruit, a Grindeha 
anda soap-root. I also purchased a fine specimen of pifion-nuts. 
It had been understood before my departure that the Palo 
Amarillo Rubber Company would probably wish me to go to 
Mexico before my return. I was held five days at Albuquerque 
by telegrams relating to this matter and finally abandoned the 
idea and left for Trinidad, Col. An afternoon was spent at 
Wooton, near the Raton Tunnel, where I made a very interesting 
collection of about forty species. Among these were a fine Cra- 
taegus in fruit, a ese and a Grindelia. Here I sought 
with special care a species of Berberts that I had known in the 
Burro Mountains, in ie eee eee part of ie territory, but it 
could not be found. I intended to search for it in another range 
on the following ee but it proved to be excessively stormy, the 
storm a very cold on d I was prevented from going out. 
On Sunday evening vl ae for Denver, arriving there about 
Monday noon. The Arkansas bridge was carried away just after 
we crossed it so that I barely escaped another serious delay. 
Here I planned a day’s collecting at Bailey’s, on the Leadville 
branch of the Colorado and Southern Railroad, and took a train 
at 6:30 P. M. Monday to return at 6 P. M. Tuesday. This 
proved a wild and successful trip from the start and was fittingly 
ended at about midnight by the engine and tender running into 
a sand-bank which had accumulated on the track and being thus 
thrown down the bank and overturned. A night of misery and 
a lost day followed, the locality affording almost nothing for col- 
ecting. Inasmuch as the car ahead of our passenger car was 
loaded with dynamite, I felt myself quite fortunate in one 
Besides a few herbarium specimens collected at this point, I suc- 
ceeded only in obtaining a museum specimen of Rhus Rydbergit 
for our poison collection. Upon returning to Denver I took the 
first train for New York. 
hope to determine the collections made before the close of 
the present year. Respectfully submitted, 
H. H. Rossy 
