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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] El Paso to Deming Aug 2. [[/underline]] West to Lanark [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Covillea tridentata [[/insertion]] Creosote & [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Prosopis glandulosa [[/insertion]] mesquite are abundant, but here they get scarce & [[red checkmark]] Yucca radiosa & big green [[red checkmark]] Ephedra & grass are the main vegetation. this is on top of the plains & Lower Sonoran is not pure. [[red checkmark]] Dipodomys spectabilis mounds begin at Lanark and are thence common westward. A bunch of 4 [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Antilocapara [[/insertion]] [[underlined]] antelope [[/underlined]] was seen at the point of lava rock The highest point on the road is near Cambray and even here there is considerable [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] P. glandulosa [[/insertion]] low mesquite, lots of tall [[red checkmark]] Yucca radiosa, [[red checkmark]] Ephedra trifurcata occasional patches of [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] C. tridentata [[/insertion]] Creosote and [[red checkmark]] [[insertion]] Zizyphus [[/insertion]] Zizyphus, but where the slope dips to the north all of these disappear. These high plains, while largely Lower Sonoran are not pure, and are so close to Upper Sonoran that a slight incline to north or south throws them in one or the other zone.