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cultivated species. It reaches a height of 6 or 7 ft. on cultivated ground but is much smaller on wild land where it has to battle for its own existence. Its most striking peculiarity is in possessing one or more ears in the axil of every leaf from base to top of stalk. 
Having secured my letter from the Governors Office in Toluca I went on across Toluca Valley to the station of Salazar at an alt. of 10300 ft. on the pass between Toluca + Mexico. This is a miserable little settlement of woodcutters on the summit of the mountain. After some trouble, I found a small hut in which we arranged our