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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underline]]Palm Springs to Los Angeles[[/underline]] [[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underline]]June 12[[/underline]], Very lame & sore & generally used up from 13 hours steady climbing up & down the mts. yesterday, so I did not get out to do much. At 1 P.M. started back to Palm Spring Station against a fierce wind that cut our faces with driving sand & gravel. Took train to Los Angeles & arrived before dark, so saw the country all the way. Arid Lower Sonoran zone stops rather abruptly at the little station half way between White Water & Banning, and no more creosote bush, Atriplex, Daleos, Fransera, Ephedra or Echinocactus were seen. A few Chilopsis, Mimosa roemeriana?, and a new species of Cylindriopuntia & the crimson flowered spineless Opuntia reach a little farther but none of them to Banning. At Banning & west of there are good crops of fruit, grain, alfalfa, and vegetables, with or without irrigation, and such wild plants as Escholtzia, wild oats grass, weeds, etc.
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"Escholtzia" = Eschscholzia? - nwmath