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Pala Mission, San Diego Co., 450 ft.

cont. from bottom p. 19 --up in the wash a cone of Pinus ponderosa which came down from the mountain and a cone of Pseudotsuga macrocarpa.

All passers-by tell us we cannot ford the San Luis Rey River with a machine by reason of the quicksands. The Palomar man tells us that the current will turn the machine over in this way. The hind wheels sink, the water piles the sand up on the wheels on the upstream side and gouges out the sand from the wheels on the down side, so that the latter wheels continue to sink and the pressure from the upper side turns the automobile over. Dutton wants to go ahead since like most Americans he hates to turn back and besides he is always for the adventure. On the other hand I want to get to the desert without fooling around a day in the San Luis Rey
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Apr. 12, 1920.

river bed and we decide to go back to Bonsall, cross the river by the bridge and go around by Escondido.

No. 8495. Phacelia parryi Torr.
Cor. rotatish, a deep royal-purple, with 5 rather large tawny-yellow spots on base corolla or near base tube, so with a sharp purple indent at base.
[sketch marked "tawny" and "purple"]
As we drove along the road Dutton saw this first; its color caused him to say we were passing larkspurs. Pala Mission.

No. 8496. Phacelia hispida Gray.
Very abundant in rocky brushy country. Cor. lavender. Pala Mission.

No. 8497 Apiastrum angustifolium Nutt.
Pala Mission. Sandy soil.

No. 8498. Stylocline gnaphalioides Nutt.
This gnaphaloid plant grew with 8497.

No. 8499. Microseris linearifolia
This cichoriad grew with 8497.
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