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[[underlined]] San Marcial [[/underlined]] [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Yucca radiosa [[/underlined]] ? (low) Com. over mesa & in washes. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for Yucca]] baccata [[/underlined]], (large) common on mesa back 10 miles mostly beyond Creosote bush. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Opuntia englemani [[/underlined]] ?, a few small plants seen that seem to be this form. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Opuntia longihimanthus [[/underlined]] (long brown spines) com on mesa [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for: Opuntia]] arborescens [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] arb [[/strikethrough]] Common on mesa, mainly on cold slopes or farther back. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for: Opuntia]] clavatum [[/underlined]], abundant on hot mesas. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for: Opuntia]] [[blank]] [[/underlined]] (white spined) com. on upper Sonor mesas [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for: Opuntia]] [[blank]] (fine spines) [[/underlined]] " " " " [[dittos for: com. on upper Sonor mesas]] [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Quercus grisea [[/underlined]], A few on mesa 19 miles west. [[underlined]] Mammals [[/underlined]] [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Citellis spilosama [[/underlined]], many heard [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Neotoma micropus [[/underlined]], houses numerous [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Perodipus [[/underlined]] burrows " [[ditto for: numerous]] [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Depodomys spectabits [[/underlined]], Mounds numerous on mesa, first seen about 6 mi. back, not many with Creosote bush. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Lepus texianus [[/underlined]] common [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for: Lepus]] minor [[/underlined]] " [[ditto for: common]] [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Thomomys [[blank]] [[/underlined]] big hills com. in valley. [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] " [[ditto for: Thomomys]] [[blank]] [[/underlined]] little hills scattered on mesa. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] San Marcial [[/underlined]]. On the lower mesas ^ [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Covillea tridentata [[/insertion]] Creosote, [[red checkmark]] Lycium [[red checkmark]] Baccharis glutinosa, [[red checkmark]] green and blue ^ [[insertion]] nevadensis [[/insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Ephedra, a [[red checkmark]] Yucca between radiosa & glauca, and [[red checkmark]] Guterrizia are the abundant shrubs. There are several species of cactus. The [[red checkmark]] Creosote keeps on hot slopes and avoids the local cold slopes, down to the valley. It also thins out on the mesa 6 to 10 miles back and follows only tongues of south slopes, but follows some of these back 17 miles The Rogers Ranch in a big wash 17 miles NW. of San Marcial is the only inhabited place seen out of the river valley, but back in the foothills are lots of ranches & towns. There is a little grass over the mesa & a few horses. Farming along the Rio Grande valley is of the Mexican type, little weedy patches & scrubby unkept apple and peach trees. The only fruit I could find was little hard sour apples
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"Depodomys spectabits" transcribed as written, but is probably Dipodomys spectabilis - @meg_shuler