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The whole country is Upper Sonoran zone with junipers on the ridges and Atriplex canescens and confertifolia on the flats & hot slopes, a few Sarcobatus bushes along the Zuni R., Eurotia lanata, Artemisia filifolia, blue Ephedra, Croton texensis, Cleome integrifolia, Helianthus annuus, "Helianthella" Bigelovia canescens & green leafless, a low cylindropuntia and a small flat Opuntia, and on hot slopes a very rank odored Dalea are common plants.

The deep channel of the Zuni River is usually dry but we found pools of good water in the pot holes at deep bends.  Grass is good on the ridges and abundant over the valley, but mostly saccatone & poor kinds.  There is little stock in the country & the unusual amount of rain this season has given the grass a great boom.

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