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[[underlined]] San Antonio [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] April 29 [[/underline]].  Took street car out to Ft. Sam Houston & walked beyond into the mesquite forest.

The country is dry and markedly arid, still almost solid green with shrubbery.  Prosopis juliflora is the dominant tree.  The few Sesbania's  are mostly killed.  Diosperas mexicana, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Leppia Lyssioides, Cordylia, Berberus trifoliata, Celtis occidentalis, Quercus virginianus & post oak are all common.  The big Yucca grows in places.  The two big Opuntias, one with lemon yellow & one with dark orange flowers, are extremely abundant & the smaller one with yellow flower & orange center is only little less so.  The Opuntia suffruticosa is abundant & does a large share in making the thicket an impenetrable mass of thorns.  Cactus wren & Mocking birds nests are common in the Yuccas & thorn bushes.  Neotoma trails & burrows were found but no houses.  The short gray moss (Tillinsia [[space]]) has killed many of the oaks 

Transcription Notes:
Tillinsia is probably the genus Tillandsia "Sisbania" is probably "Sesbania"--thomasc