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June 19, 1891.
Walker's Ranch near Olancha, Inyo Co., Cal.
We left Lone Pine this morning at about seven o'clock, Dr. Merriam, Mr. Palmer, Beth and I with McGraff for teamster. Beth and I rode in the cart after Zoë.
We went down the west side of Owens Lake keeping the regular road. This is at some points about a hundred feet above the level of the lake. The region lies in upper [[underline]] Larrea [[/underline]], but this plant is wanting except in the mouths of some of the cañons. The first seen was near Cottonwood, and from that place southward it grew about the cañon mouths in greater abundance. It is now in fruit and the white capsules give the plant a gray appearance that renders it not very easily distinguishable at a distance from the Atriflex brush. 
The most abundant shrubs are