here to dry the plants properly, but usually two hours of sun 

 could be had each day. Help in drying specimens was usually 

 not available, and this required my spending at least two days 

 between trips in caring for herbarium material alone. Under 

 these circumstances it seemed best to give rather more attention 

 to collecting living plants. 



In as much as it was impossible to locate for any length of 

 time in the mountains, work was restricted naturally to localities 

 not too inaccessible from the railway. Thus, on the nineteenth, 

 in company with Don Juan J. Cooper, I gathered near Cartago 

 some 50 numbers, mainly orchids and bromeliads, and on the 

 following day 55 numbers in the partially wooded vicinity of 

 Santiago, a few miles farther east. The next day I collected in 

 in the valley of the Rio Tirivi, near San Jose. Nearly half of the 

 numbers thus far were represented by living plants, and these I 

 sent to New York, together with some 40 living cactuses I had 

 purchased on the seventeenth from Mr. A. Brode in San Jose. 

 These 40 specimens represented all but two or three of the 

 species reported from Costa Rica by Weber in 1902. 



My next journey was by rail to the station of Turrialba at the 

 border of the ticrra calicnte. On one of the three partial days 

 spent here I was taken by my host, Don Juan Gomez, to the low 

 humid forest bordering the Rio Reventazon (altitude 600 meters), 

 a vicinity well worth future investigation. Some excellent ferns, 

 orchids * and woody fungi were obtained here. 



Coliblanco, which I next visited, setting out from Cartago, has 

 been well described \ recently by Mr. Robert Ridgway, to whom 

 I am under obligations for the accompanying illustrations. It is 

 an estate lying at the base of the Volcan de Turrialba, at an esti- 

 mated elevation of 1,950 meters. Portions of three days were 



