P. PEARSON 1952 59 this, all ribes. Poplars at 12,000; willows slightly lower. Quinno in small amounts down to 10,950 ft. at 11,200ft was a stretch with the big green thun and the showing tiger green that we encountered near Porenater. Lots of yellow calceolaria Scrophulariacea in bloom On the way up the hill from Huambatio to Avanceane at dusk saw a bat flying at 11,700' May 3 Morning clear. Done frost. By the light of day we found the view from our stopping place on the ridge top most impressive, but no match for the tremendous sweep to be seen from Tres Cruces, to which we drove after breakfast. Jumbled foothills were poking up through a lake of clouds, and far above all this stretching out over the lowlands was a sea of cumulus clouds. The low clouds must have been at 3 or 4 thousand feet; the cumulus at 6 or 7 thousand. The road from the highway locks to Tres Cruces runs along the ridge. Mothy grassy, but tongues + patches of cloud forest, cycaede, nunneone pards also. Sphagnum in many places (but mostly dry sphagnum), many "alpine" flowers including dwarf blueberries. a mile or so before Tres Cruces we saw a hunter with gun, and just as we saw him a big deer jumped up and ran down the steep slope. Either a brown or white tail. This is the first man we have seen afield in Peru with a gun this trip. altitudes of Tres Cruces 11,900ft. Clouds thickened after lunch, then some started reaching up to our level and blowing pasts. Later the clouds lowered again and at night were a sea over the mountains.