R.K. Selander, 1952 26 Cerro Guzman, 200 ft., 20 mi. W Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. about - very few ferns of any description. Weather cools today than yesterday - no rain. Full moon tonight. Frogs calling but less of a chorus than two previous nights. We are planning to move to some place near Jalapa tomorrow; should get C. zonatus commonly around Jalapa. Collected a number of Odonata today. Large tree about here are, according to Lamb, wild figs. Went to bed at 10:30. Weather damp. Lightning in the south. August 6 Broke camp at 8:00 A.M. and drove to Jalapa. Had car greased and arranged for renewal of insurance for the truck. Then drove to Coatepec, about 10 miles south of Jalapa. A large, clear river running along the road between Jalapa and Coatepec. Extensive coffee and banana plantations. Rolling terrain, heavily vegetated. We drove to our present camp site - 2 mi. S Coatepec, 3700 ft., Veracruz, Mexico. We are camped about 100 feet off the highway on an old cobblestone road running through a coffee and banana plantation. The country all about camp is planted in coffee and bananas: Some fairly large trees interspersed. In the lowlands about 1/2 mile to the northwest of camp there is a stand of large trees, some of them ashers. Cobble-stone roads and trails lead through the coffee