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[[underlined]] Livingston to Gardner. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 16 [[/underlined]]. Just south of Livingston the valley narrows up and aspens are mixed with the augustipolia in the bottom while pines come down on cold slopes. A few miles farther the valley widens out in a dry open plain 5 to 10 miles wide There are no yellow pines & this place is vacant of timber and covered with grass The sharp lower border of black forest of spruce & lodgpole on the slopes marks Canadian zone. The open is Transition and in this big dry valley there is still a trace of Sonoran.

[[underlined]] Opuntia [[?in--siensis?]] [[/underlined]] is abundant over the dry hot slopes and an extensive & very populous colony of [[underlined]] Cyromys ludovicianus [[/underlined]] extends for a while or more along the RR about 10 mi. S. of Livingston.

The strips of timber along the river are [[underlined]] Populus augustifolia [[/underlined]] with a little [[underlined]] balsamifera [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Betula occidentalis [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Alnus [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Salix [[/underlined]], a few [[underlined]] Juniperus originarus [[/underlined]] & now & then a [[underlined]] Pseudotsuga [[/underlined]]. Also occasionally a bunch of [[underlined]] [[?Lipa--gyser?]] [[?arquatia?]][[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] Citillis richardsoni [[/underlined]] is common about Livingston but no trace seen above the narrows.