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St. Helena to Burke's Sanatorium (Sonoma Co.) all. I think no other region has so many. Possibly the Santa Cruz Mountains could show as many. The Scrub Oak is in this region too. Eight! -Near the road and not far from Mark West Springs a big Live Oak (agrifolia) grows on a shoulder of the hillside. Large trees are often found in such situations. Also noted in a flat in a canyon bottom Cerasus demissa 25 and possibly 30 ft. high. -Calycanthus occidentalis in flower, its odor is like the odor of pomace, a by-product in wine-making. Mrs.
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May 29, 1904 Lewalling calls it Spice Bush. -Heuchera micrantha in flower, its flowers smell like cutch or a colony of ants at very short range!! -No. 2430. Streptauthus secundus greene. Flowers mostly secund but not always so. Sometimes a single flower will bend out of the raceme in the opposite way to the majority, sometimes a third or half. Mark West Creek (Burke's) -On this trip with my brother-in-law Frank Pellet, the banker of Saint Helena.
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