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San Pasqual Grade, Apr. 12, 1920. c. 1700 ft.
Ceanothus oliganthus Nutt. The bush shows only the dark green upper side to its leaves, the white-woolly under sides not noticeable until you turn up a branch. Platanus racemosa - common along streams.
No. 8504. Diplacus longiflorus Nutt. X D. puniceus Nutt. Det. A. ?. G. Cor. [corolla] pale yellow; white patterns in throat.
No. 8505 Cneoridium dumosum Hook.f. Fls. 4-merous; pets. [petals] white, obovate, obtuse; filaments dilated strongly; ovary globose, the style lateral (arising from the base), flat, with globose stigma. Ovary green, resting on a pinkish short-cylindric disk. Odor very heavy and disagreeable, something like a mixture of very raw turpentine and bruised dog-fennel foliage. Bush 2 to 3 ft. h. Leaves pellucid-dotted. Berries resinous-punctate, green, now becoming rosy-red on one side.
No. 8506. Arctostaphylos bicolor Nutt. Leaves dark shiny green above,
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37_27
San Pasqual Grade, San Diego Co.
white close-woolly beneath, thick and brittle!
No. 8507. Adenostoma fasciculatum H. & A.
-Quercus engelmannii, just coming into new leaf. -Quercus agrifolia Nee. -Artemisia, much like A. californica but not flowering. -Eriogonum fasciculatum. -Islay (Prunus ilicifolia)
-We turn up, i.e., south from Santa Isabel Creek, follow a small lateral stream and camp in an open in the canon, =Clevinger Canon, pleasingly diversified with oaks and grassy glades. The next morning Dutton goes out with my Winchester shot-gun. The evening before we had seen cottontail rabbits popping into the brush and he soon returns with one which he promptly dresses. As it lays on a tin plate he says "_1.65 please." We paid just that for a rabbit for Sunday dinner. It
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