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31_168 Sanitarium, Napa Co., Howell Mt. ---------- shrubs -- skeletons 8 to 15 feet high -- for this species is normally of large size. In spite of being killed in this way, it seems to be deeprooted, as well as large-trunked. I have seen individuals 20 feet high and trunks 1 foot in diameter at the ground. A. stanfordiana, fire-killed shrubs, are mostly overthrown by winter storm and have surface-spreading roots like A. nummularia. A manzanita, on the contrary, mostly stand erect still. I have not calculated the date of the last fire but it must be at least three years ago. |
31_169 Oct. 10, 1915. ---------- - B.H. Strother, Tonopah, says: Tonopah is the Indian name of Water Brush. This is a low plant about Tonopah, with small stems. Its stems furnish water to the small desert mammals sufficient for their needs. -- Wrote Strother March 19, '16 ----- A. - Panicles in bud drooping (October & Nov.). 1. Bracts inconspicuous. A. manzanita 2. Bracts very conspicuous, concealing buds. A. canescens B - Panicles in bud erect (October) A. stanfordiana Observed on Adan & Eve Trail |
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