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July 1 1912 stands alongside the lightning struck tree. It is Yellow Pine_. --Snow Plant. Not seen near snow this trip! Is it perennial? Could not get ready to flower in one year, but does it flower more than once? ----------------------- Tulare Co. Golden Trout Creek, July 2 1912. No. 4928. Stellaria longipes Goldie. Stamens 10. Pets. deeply divided, white. Golden Trout Ck 8000 ft No. 4928a. Allium campanulatum Wats No 4929. Nama rothrockii Gray Flower parts 5, also 6 _ 7 Tends to form colonies-- 8000 ft Golden Trout Creek --------------------- [footnote] The streak down the Sugar Pine trunk is clear of bark, 4 to 6 in. wide and with the wood finely splintered at intervals. cf. "Lightning-struck tree in Kern Canon (Sierra Club Bulletin, 9: 25) by W. L. Jepson
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Little Kern Lake Plants Observed 6233 ft Kern Canon
-Prunus emarginata -Quercus californica -Libocedrus decurrens -Pinus ponderosa and var. jefferyi -Populus trichocarpa -Lotus nevadensis, very common -Arctostaphylos patula. Stone with nutlets cohering into a solid stone.
No. 4930 Astragalus kernensis Jepson. Sides of notched banner turned sharply backward and thus narrow. Wings narrow-tubular though being convolute, shorter than banner; keel shorter than wings. Wings turning bluish. Flowers whitish.--Golden Trout Creek. Pods splotched with red.-- 8200 ft. New Species!
No. 4931. Castilleia breweri Fer. Tips bracts and calyx veins on teeth Corolla exserted from
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