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are respectively gray and green.
Another conspicuous feature of the landscape due to slope exposure is brought out in this region by looking southward and northward at hills situated at about lower piñon line. In looking northward one sees scarcely a piñon, merely bare hills; while southward the slopes may be half covered with them.
On the plateau at a reading of 8700 [[superscript]] = 5900 ft. = 1800m. [[/superscript]] were
  

. [[underlined]] Juniperus californica utahensis [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] Artemisia tridentata [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] Ephedra ^[[viridis]] [[/underlined]] dark green, and an occasional
.  [[underlined]] Purshia tridentata glandulosa [[/underlined]]

On a gentle southwest slope at a reading of 8600 = 5800 ft = 1770 m.

. [[underlined]] Coleogyne ramosissima [[/underlined]] was abundant
. [[underlined]] Juniperus californica ^[[utahensis]] [[/underlined]] abundant
. [[underlined]] Artemisia tridentata [[/underlined]] and 
. [[underlined]] Ephedra ^[[viridis]] [[/underlined]] dark green, about equal.
At a reading of 8550, [[superscript]] = 5750 ft. = 1755 m [[/superscript]] on a