65 Let Mountains trail was composed largely of a mild flowery meadow (with some alpine grasses) and with aniseed (Anisum) There was one very beautiful flower to my footpath (also a Telephium, which was on 10. 10). The white Phacelia had been common on 10. (collected some old capsules which I will have in reserve for seeds when dry). Elodea hairy Trachyspermum is an epiphanic (for seeds when dry). Corydalis was a fuggy plant with abundant flowers on the tree trunks. Bumps of the slumped trees (1873?) on the tree trunks. Not much moss on the ground. Covered with micro-covoid roots. Not much moss on the ground. Probably under cloud most of the year. Walking in thickets. Two Lagopus, gray rather than brown in color, with white tails in lieu of brown, cut from a tree by the mammal boys. Tuesday Oct. 25: Rain began about 12.30 last night. I did not clear off my kit until about midday. Funny afternoon, not much of the day performing yesterday's gathering of 37 numbers of plants. Last night, when the lamp was being carried from my kit (when we have our rain and water) in the preparation fly, when we sat, a great atlas moth fluttered to it and was stopped to the ground. I caught by hand. The abominable first specimen with wings 11 cm. in length. Photographed it today. Out packing for about 3 hours last night. Finest this a Sphaller, a Betulaceae and a Pinnate-cupped Sterculia. Finest got probably the same species of Sterculia, but the capsule was much darker and there was irregular white blotches (Chalonia below the capsule). Walking in broom at the top but not ripped. Since Tuesday, Ernest has had a cold or mild flu. Nora Rie has it. Sogel has malaria, caught on by the rain, mediab. Since a bad attack in the mountains of Fergana two months ago, he is supposed to have been on a weekly prevention dose of camphor. Wild pigs go high — is at least 2000 ft. — in the mountains. Many nothings in some places. The stiff yellow clay would affect our understanding of food. On all the heights, including the camp, at about 1000 ft., there is only a very shallow core of humus over 12 clay. The trees of the forest spread immensurable short roots — only partly covered by stuff of humus. The rocks make worn paths very uncomfortable to walk on with boots.