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and while the western edge of it along the railroad is tinged with chapperal & raises mainly sugar beets, potatoes & barley the eastern and greater part are yellow with grain & stubble & wild oats & dotted with live oaks, eucalyptus groves & orchards of some kind. A few scrubby little palms & pepper trees suggest that farther back the valley should be mapped as Lower Sonoran. Yellow oat covered hills east of the valley also support this view.


Along Arroyo Grande, near Ocano, are extensive marshes, of weeds & willows & some tuleys[[?]] & cat tails, full of birds, mainly blackbirds. A few small fan palms & fine groves of eucalyptis grow at Oceano, but the coast chapperal, as noted on last page with Rhu, Sambercus & willows added predominates to Grover as we follow the coast. At Grover we go up a narrow willow & sycamore gulch, with some live oaks & wild oat slopes & some chapperal slopes, a mixture of zones.