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[[underlined]] Jan. 12 [[/underlined]] Got up at 4 oclock, had breakfast & packed up & started for Lone Willow at 6:15, just as it got light enough to see the road. Followed along the east edge of the valley close to edge of salt flat. At Salt Springs there is a pond of salt water that collects from several springs along the edge of flat. The road is stony for a few miles & runs close to [[strikethrough]] edge of [[/strikethrough]] foot of mountains, then turns off into middle of valley & is good most of the way.  Salicornia is the characteristic plant of the edge of the flats.  Next to it comes a thick, white leaved plant of the Chenipodacae.  The valley is very bare & out side of the perfectly bare & salt crusted flat. Larrhea mexicana grows scatteringly over the [[strikethrough]] dry [[/strikethrough]] higher parts & over the foot hills on the west side of the valley.
About 10 miles east of Post Office Spring we find granite boulders in the valley, & the ground is granite gravel washed down from the west mountains. For a long way this range is all of a coarse grained granite like that of the Coso Mts. & Alabamas, possibly in the same formation & continuous with them. It gives a character to the valley as a certain set of plants seem to go with the granite soil. Opuntia arborescens Eriogonum & other plants that I dont know

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Chenipodacae = Chenopodiaceae? Reviewed. Agree with above note. Think "dry" has been struck through so have added markup. -@siobhanleachman