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30_32 Osborn's Camp Ord Mt. - Amsinkia tessellata Gray, no. 5834 "Horses fond of it. Eat it in preference to alfilaree. Miners call it Devil's Lettuce from the little bristles on it, but horses don't mind the bristles. Burros are very eager for it and reach for it and won't pass it," Geo. Willis. - Grayia spinosa, called Salt Bush by Willis who says sheep are very fond of it. - Ephedra. Called Squaw Tea as well as Desert Tea and Whorehouse tea. Willis says it is a good substitute for ordinary tea and used as such, the branches being used for an infusion. Add sugar and cream and it is first-rate says Willits. - Eurotia lanata. |
30_33 May 3, 1914. - We followed a good road south from Doggett. As we gradually ascended we came into a [long] wash filled with the following species: Bladder Sage (Salazaria mexicana); chaffy-headed composite, no. 5855; Senecio douglasii shrub with large fls. no. 5854; Chilopsis saligna; Desert peach, no. 5865; Dalea s, no. 5852 and 5847; Encelia, no. 5850; Franseria dumosa the common species everywhere in the dry hills; - On the summit of Ord Mt. - see p. 35, -it was a great suprise to find turtle shells, mostly broken, lying amongst the rocks. Eagles capture the turtles on the valley mesas and bring them up here, dropping them from high in the air, to break open the shells and thus get pickings from the body inside. See in the ancient literature (?Aeschylus). |
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