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[[checkmark]] Menodora spinescens

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[[underline]] Dec. 2. [[/underline]]

Started at 7 oclock - before sunrise. Followed up the same wash about 4 miles farther before reaching the summit. 

The trees are all Cedar & Cowania,  There are no Piñons. Cedars grow quite thickly. The green Ephedra is common high up on north slopes;  The pale, bluish kind is common in the wash high up - Erotia lanata runs to the divide. The high mountains are rough & broken & of a light colored granite - From this divide we go down into a valley that is not so low as the one we came out of but with nearly the same set of plants. There is more of the little Koeberlina & Erotia lanata is the predominant plant in the middle of the valley, making it white - Farther south the valley is lower & has a large white bottom. In the strip of solid Erotia where we crossed the bottom of the valley, the ground is sand & mellow & is all tracked up with Dipodops of 2 or 3 different sizes. Also other small tracks. Some of the Dipodops tracks are large & I think are of Deserti - others are very small - From this valley we climb another range of Mts., a northern spur of the Pilot Mts. It is not a very high pass & the road is fairly good. Cedars cover these mountains also. There is a little snow high up on north sides of Pilot Mts. They are rather high & very steep & rough -

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