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Little Chemehuevis Val. Whipple Mts. [San Bernardino Co.] ---------- - Went into camp on a sand-beach below Steamboat Rock at 5:30 p.m.
No. 5216. Suaeda moquini. [= S. fruticosa] 3 ft. h. Little Chemhuevis Val. Straggling. No. 5217. Atriplex lentiformis 2 ft. h. but not fl. or fr.
No. 5218. Comp. forming a dense bush with many stems, 4 ft. h! & 8 ft. broad! Wash, Little Chemhuevis Valley.
No. 5219. Baccharis glutinosa Straight tall stems, 8 to 10 ft. h. No. 5220. Physalis crassifolia Benth. Plants diffusely branching, 1 to 3 ft. broad. See p. 65. Corolla recurving limb, pale egg-yellow. Prob. open only in morning or at least not in mid-day. No!!
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25 Oct. 1912 Steamboat Rock ---------- - Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) cables [?], exposed by river washing, 10 to 20 feet long and 3/4 to 1 inch thick for their length. - "Sailed" this morning (Oct. 25) from the camp below Steamboat Rock 8:30. ---------- See page 146. No. 5220. Cont, from p. 64. Corolla 1/2 inch broad about. Stamens 5. Calyx-tube short-cylindric, acutely 5-toothed, highly inflated in fruit and enclosing a capsule-like fruit about the size of a pea which is now greenish and very glandular-sticky but doubtless becomes a berry later on. Root annual? about 1/2 in. diam. deep-seated. Corolla tube short, not produced beyond calyx, with hairy scales at summit of tube, one opposite each lobe. Wash
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