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dry clay foothills almost entirely bare except for the now dead and closely grazed annual vegetation.
Some of the washes contain a leafless and seemingly dead shrub, and the only other scant vegetation is [[underlined]] Asclepias erosa [[/underlined]], Eremocarpus setigerus [[underlined]] Grindelia [[/underlined]] , [[underlined]] Opuntia [[/underlined]] , and an occasional Cucurbita perennis and digitata.

In the vicinity of Paso Station were seen also [[underlined]] Isomeris arborea [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Atriplex canescens [[/underlined]] ? [[underlined]] Mirabilis multiflora pubescens [[/underlined]]

Paso Creek itself is at this season quite dry, and its bed is filled with a fine very yielding sand.  The fall of the stream is very gentle, and no gravel is carried along in it.  The trees along its banks are cottonwoods (Populus monilifera) and willow (Salix nigra) and sycamores ([[underlined]] Platanus racemosa [[/underlined]])
The plains beside Paso Creek are the same in vegetation as those described.

Many ranches through this region are deserted.
^[[insertion]] The divide between Bakersfield and [[/insertion]] Paso Station is about eight hundred feet higher than Bakersfield.