L Pearson 1969 Journal Papa Leon Trece, 150 ft., Depto. de Lima, Peru June 1969 Mynal and I arrived in Lima about noon, joined AK + Ray Hilbarn, OP Pearson, and Mrs. Davis + kids, and drove south through sand hills along the coast to Papa Leon Trece, a "housing development" a la Peruviana near Pucusana. On the drive down we saw several vultures (flaco?) flying and pelicans, and dark grey gulls and some grey + white gulls sitting on the beach. Also a vermilion flycatcher on a phone wire. The only water hereabouts comes up from wells. Ray, Mynal, + I went to some hills 4 kilometers drive east NE of Pucusana and set traps. The hills are steep and rocky, and in the gullies + washes and on the tops of the hills (where the fog is closer) some type of cactus grows, of this form: [drawing]. Most of it seems dead, + you have to look close to see that some branches are green + fleshy. I found two small cactus, maybe the same kind, with long red flowers with yellow inner parts. Cactus is the conspicuous plant, but lichens are more ubiquitous, all over the dusty ground, the rocks, + the cactus. Up at the top of the hill I climbed there were with clover-shaped leaves occasional clover plants + some lily-family plants. (The sky was continually foggy + seemed to come in closer as it got later (5:30 ish) and a bit breezy, but it wasn't cold.) The hills because of the dry + still weather and tracks stay around a long time, + people tracks + paths were all over, + there were trails crisscrossing the