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30_184 Barstow Forage Plants of the Trip - Pleuraphis rigida This is a very fine forage plant, doubtless the finest in either the Mohave or Colorado deserts. It is widespread and rather abundant, often very abundant and so is a real resource. Desert men often cut it for hay and desert travelers cut it where it is abundant to carry into areas where it doesn't grow. The spike stands upon a slender stalk something like a wheat head. Our horses were fond of it and thrived upon it. The plant is often found in heavy stools one to two (to three) feet in diameter at base |
30_185 May 31, 1914. and forming a sort of dense clump of more or less woody stems 6 inches to a foot or 2 ft. high, from which clump rise the slender flowering stems. I noticed that cattle browsed down the clump until it became woody, that is until they reached the parts too woody. It was in a great wash half-way between Warrens Well and Twenty-nine Palms that we found it most abundant and highly developed. On the other hand it is often small, 8 to 12 inches high from a very small stool. Everywhere the desert men and cattlemen call this Gietta grass. cf. Erythea 3:148. Another |
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