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1/4 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
AMBATO
1858.
Sept. 18-22. Packing Quito collections.
23.
28.
Ambato to Riobamba.
Riobamba to Cajabamba.
29. Cajabamba to Pangor.
,, 30. To a hill-top in forest of Pallatanga.
12.
village of Pallatanga.
Collecting around ,,
13.
14.
1
5.
16-20.
Pallatanga.
From Pallatanga to forest below Pangor.
To the Hacienda de las Monjas.
Across the Paramo de Naba to Riobamba.
At Riobamba.
Oct. i . To
21. Return to Ambato by the Paramo de Sanancajas.
22. Ambato.
23.
24.
To Patate and back to Ambato.
Back to Riobamba by way of
Sabanan.
the Paramo de
2t.
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RIOBAMBA
,, 31. Collecting near Riobamba, at Guano, etc.
Nov. 1-8. Collecting near Riobamba.
9-14. At the farm of Titaicun on the slope of a ridge (not
rising to snow-line) above the ,, 15-30.
Dec. 1-2.
village of Cham bo.
At Riobamba.
Excursion to the Paramo del Puyal, a prolongation
of the southern shoulder of Chimborazo.
3-8. Collecting near Riobamba.
AT THE FARM OF TAMAUTE, AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE
RIVERS GUANO AND CHAMBO
9-31. Excursions around Tamaute :
the banks of the
On
Chambo on the salt-plain of Elen to Guanando
to the head of the river Guano (at the
foot of Chimborazo), etc.
[The following letter to Mr. Bentham, written
two months after his arrival at Banos, gives an
interesting summary of the whole journey
to that
place, with so many vivid personal touches that,
despite of some repetition,
I will here give the
latter part of it. It also carries on the narrative to
a later period, and gives some account of the little-