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Show GARCfo IN THE WOODS. 329 directions to another rancheria, where I passed the night, having traveled during the whole day four and a half leagues. June 16. In the morning I went four leagues northeast and north, over highlands ( en monies) clothed with junipers ( savinos) and pines;" in the cool. Another name of the thing is alcarraza. Such utensils are in common use throughout the Southwest. The ollas of the Indian girls were woven of wicker work, like corpulent little jugs, with small mouths and no handles, rendered water- tight with gum. The moral is the mulberry, but there is some mistake about this; Garces simply missed a shot in the dark, as there is no mulberry in these lands. The Mexican mulberry, Morus ceUidifolia, grows in southern Arizona, but is not known to occur north of the Gila; it grows sparingly in the Santa Rita mountains. " En monies is not " on mountains"; I have set " over highlands," which is true of the ground, but " through woods" would be as correct a translation. The savinos said are the trees universally called " cedars " in Arizona. They are two species of Juniperus, which used to be confounded under the name of /. occidtntalis, namely, /. utahensis and /. monospermo, both common in northern Arizona. A third species, /. pachyphUxa, the rough- or checkered- bark juniper, occurs sparingly about Flagstaff, but really belongs to a more southern flora, and abounds on the mountains south of the Gila. The principal and most conspicuous pine of the Colorado plateau is Pinus ponde-rosa scopulorum, a species very widespread in the West. On the lower slopes of the San Francisco mountains grows P. fiexMs, remarkable for the great size of its cones; while on the same mountain P. aristota of large stature grows up to timber line. These pines are, of course, exclusive of the pifion, P. edulis, |