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About 5 or 6 miles south of Carrizozo we strike the first trace of Lower Sonoran zone -- abundance of [[underlined]]Covillea tridentata [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]]Prosopis glandulosa [[/underlined]] -- the yuccas are becoming taller & more toward [[underlined]] radiosa[[/underlined]] with trunks 1 or 2 feet high. The mesquite is leaving out and a few flowers were seen on the creosote.

At [[strikethrough]]A[[/strikethrough]] Tularosa & Alamogorda the vegetation is still backward, and grass has just started.  There are almost no flowers, tho at Jerilla the tall Yucca radiosa are full of long spikes of buds and a few are almost in full flower. 

Raining and cold nearly all day. Several men wearing overcoats at El Paso.

Left El Paso at about 5:30 and reached Deming just after dark. Conditions of vegetation the same. Mesquites in flower at Deming and a few Fouqueries near El Paso in bud but not yet in leaf.

Transcription Notes:
leaving out = leafing out Jerilla = Jarilla? nwmath