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. [[underlined]] Nitrophila occidentalis [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Heliotropium curassavicum [[/underlined]]
Cordylanthus
. Atriplex [[strikethrough]] [[underlined crossed out]] [[/strikethough]]
. [[underlined]] Cleomella [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] parviflora [[/strikethrough]] brevipes
. [[underlined]] Juncus mexicanus [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] Scirpus nevadensis. [[/underlined]]
Still farther back from the shore the sand is looser and but slightly alkaline on the surface so that it drifts readily and is piled into sandhills. The most conspicuous and abundant shrub of these sandhills is
. [[underlined]] Sarcobatus vermiculatus [[/underlined]]
accompanied by
. [[underlined]] Atriplex parryi [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] " [[ditto referring to Atriplex, above]] confertifolia [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] Suaeda suffrutescens. [[/underlined]]
Back of the sandhills the mesa begins with
. [[underlined]] Atriplex confertifolia [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] Franseria dumosa [[/underlined]]
. [[underlined]] Atriplex hymenelytra [[/underlined]]