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[[underlined]] Llano Estacado [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] May 28 [[/underlined]]  Started at 7:30 & continued over the same kind of country all day to Lubbock.  The barometer read 3300 at camp in morning 3100 at [[?Taloba]] Lake (4 miles from Camp) and 3300 again on the prairie a mile beyond.  Then gradually rising to 3500 at Lubbock.

All smooth topped prairie with short mesquites & Acacias scattered over most of it.  Grass short & dry, has hardly started since the ove rain.

Almost all of the shrubs & conspicuous plants of the lower level have dissapeared and a few northern species - Guiterrezia ? & & others have appeared.  We are evidently on the edge of Upper & Lower Sonoran zones all the way with a [[?mture]] of both.

Saw a few Antelope, several coyotes killed & spermophilus pallidus, prairie dogs are continuous to 15 miles west of the lake, then only in scattered colonies the rest of the way.  Jack rabbits & cottontails common.  No neotomas.

Lubbock is a town of a dozen houses on bare prairie.

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Gutierrezia