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of the barren desert ranges east & south of the valley.

The main mountain slope west of the valley is densely covered with chapparel nearby to the top, or up to the pines & firs that crover the top & north slopes down the canyons 1000 feet or so.  This chapparel is especially dense all along the road from Banner to the summit of the range near Julien or from 2600 to 4100 feet.

It is composed of Adenostoma fasciculata, Ceanothus diveriacatus, - (spiny [[biord?]]) and [[blank]] (wide soft leaf), of Prunus ilicifolia, Hetteromeles, Rhus [[blank]] (big leaf) Arctostophylos patula?, Cercocarpus parvifolia, Ribes areum (some form), [[Cereis?]] [[blank]], Arctomeson [[blank]] (yellow), Lonicera [[blank]] (white), much Quercus dumosa, and ^[[Yucca whipplei and]] many less conspicuous plants.  In the gulches down at Banner, Populus fremonti, Platinus, Almus, Salix nigra, Sambucus glarea, Vitis, Quercus agrifolia & englmani are abundant.