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buckeye ^[[insertion]] [[underlined]] Aesculus californica [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] disappears, while the most abundant oak is . [[underlined]] Quercus chrysolepis [[/underlined]].

July 7, 1891.
Fort Tejon, Kern County, Cal.
I went to-day up    Cañon, which enters Cañada de las Uvas from the south about a mile east of Fort Tejon; and followed it to its head.  I there ascended the mountain slopes to the westward where, in a north-sloping draw, I found . [[underlined]] Abies concolor [[/underlined]]. I then kept on up the steep slope southward through the scrub-oaks and piñons to the summit of the peak.  From this point Mt Piñon is visible two or three miles southwestward, Fraser Mountain southeastward, Castac Lake and Antelope Valley eastward, Mt Whitney northeastward, and the Tulare Plains northwestward.
The summit has along its northern edge and slopes a chemise growth of [[underlined]] Cercocarpus parvifolius, Quercus chrysolepis, Ceanothus ^[[insertion]] vestitus [[/insertion]] [[/underlined]] no 1194 and [[underlined]] Fremontia californica [[/underlined]].
Looking northward the Sierran foothills and mountains are grassed, and