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Post's Ranch Monterey County Big Sur
the right hand ca_on to Post's Ranch.
No. 2582 Actaea rubra var. arguta [berries] bright red. Plants 3 ft. h. Leaves 4 times ternate or binate.
No. 2583. Eschscholtzia. Annual, m [shade]. Petals straw-yellow, with a slight dash of orange at base. E. hypecoides Bth.
No. 2584 Sage (Salvia) mellifera Greene Upper lip notched the sides turned back, middle lobe of lower lip with crenulated edge, the lateral oblong, lobes short, corolla white with a bit of lilac tinge.
The beekeeper calls. No. 2602 Artemisa california "Turpentine bush" He insists bees make no honey from it - but we saw them working on it.
How much is association of ideas, said the intense New England lady. God must have been inspired when he named the [hog].
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Sept 14, 1906 -At Post's Ranch we are received most courteously by the proprietor, a dark man, with the most pleasing voice that I ever heard from one living in the wilds. We pack one of the animals and start up the mountain for the Bracted Firs.
No. 2585. Trichostema lanceolatum Bth. see p. 135 exceedingly abundant on the dry grassy hills in places taking the ground closely for a hundred yards. The plants here are all branched. The main axis is usually superseded by the many branches, all of which turn their flowers outward and their leaves around to the back of the stem, stand-
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