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Bear Valley.
them. Tops symmetrical big and round, or with wind-rifted crown, straggling bunches of tufted spars above crowning the new crown below which is now rounded out like the former outline above. - Fine sprouts from decayed laurel trunks, forming a circle and forming [?plus-minus symbol for "more or less"?] symmetrical oval crowns 28 ft. high. These peculiar trees are on the slope at entrance of Bear Valley, stand alone and are noticeable from Olema on opposite side.
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Nov. 19, 1904.
-Mr. Tower says Plantago lanceolata is called Buck Plantain in Kansas where it is also a pest. This and Hypochaeris radicata cover fully 25 to 35 percent of the valley and lower slopes of hill land!! The rosettes are admirably adapted for crowding out other species--grasses and native plants. -Trip to Mt. Vision (Bot. 4): Blue Blossom in flower, an aggressive species. Gaultheria shallon, its corollas resembling the perianths of the Lily of the Valley.
No. 2463. Myrica Californica Common enough.
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