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Mohave Desert, Barstow ---------- 2100 ft.
- Was met at the station by Miss Waterman with her road team who took me at once to the ranch. Then we drove to Hinkley. On the way we found a disabled Western Grebe on the desert which when I approached showed fight, advancing and thrusting vigorously at my hands its long and slender sharp bill. We took him home and Manson put him in a tub of water. I had the usual hearty welcome from all the ranch people and feel quite at home again.
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2 May 1913. ---------- No. 5355. Dalea saundersii Parish Shrub 4 ft. high, many stemmed from base or near it, very scraggly. Wood very brittle! Fls. deep indigo! See p. 44. No. 5356. Biscutella californica Brew. & Wats. Crucifer. Fls. white, very wall-fl. like. = Dithyrea californica Harv. No. 5357. Eschscholtzia Cor. yellow. Leaves in a close tuft, glaucous. No. 5358. Gilia schottii (Torr.) Greene [= Langloisia] Corolla pale, 5 lobes in 2 lips. 1 (or 2?) lobes in lower lip. No. 5359. Oenothera gauraeflora T. & G. Cor. white. Cont. p. 60. = O. alyssoides H. & A. var. decorticans Jepson.
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