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Sarcobatus grows thick on the mounds & that is what forms them. The wind drifts the sand up into the brush where it lodges & keeps making the mound higher & the Sarcobatus grows up with it. There is a [[strikethrough]] row [[/strikethrough]] strip of these wounds most of the way around the flat at the same distance back from the edge.

The common brush of the valley is Sarcobotus vermiculatus & the other Sarcobotus, Atriplex canescens & confertifolia, These all go down over the sand hummicks & onto the salt ground near the edge of the sink bottom.

Atriplex confertifolia does not come down quite so far as A. canescens. Salt grass & a Salicarnia come to the edge of the bare flat quite a way beyond all other plants.

We pass along the east side of the flat then up a long wash & over a low divide & down to Columbus, 19 1/2 miles.

It is a very [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] bare country all along the road, no sage brush even, just little bunches of Grease brush & on the top of the ridge some of those round, branching Opuntias. 

Went through Columbus & out about a mile into the edge of the salt marsh & camped. The sand hummicks are all along the edge of this salt marsh the same as the one at Sodaville. I set 26 traps at holes in these sand piles, but it is so 

Transcription Notes:
guessing hummick = hummock ("a hillock, knoll, or mound") -@meg_shuler Reviewed. Made one minor change. -@siobhanleachman