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45_58 Se foothills at end Santa Rosa Mts., (Silent Canon) cont. from p. 57.-- the whir of their wings almost as sweet and clear as a bell in the dead calm, the utter quiet, the level stillness of the desert canons. --We go to Mecca; buy a steak; take on water; go se on the Brawley road and run too far (and too fast) to see the seventeen Palms trail, come back at same pace (too fast) and go up a wash on the say-so of a young fellow at one of the road-working camp. We follow up this wash eight miles, in a canon. The way is often difficult. Four times we have to clear a path; three of these times to remove very soft sandstone which has fallen from the walls into the bottom of the wash. We reach a point where we stop. I judge this is about 1000 feet (at least) and under (NE) of the highest point (2696 ft.) a Point north of Seventeen Palms See Indio Topog Map. We are in the foothills of the SE end of the Santa Rosa Range. I call the canon |
45_59 April 14 1927 1000 ft circa [I call the canon] Silent Canon. There are no mammals at all apparent and only a few small birds. --------------------------- drawing of Allionia incarnata flower Stamens inserted low on perianth-tube just above ovary, i.e. near constriction above ovary. No. 11691a Wedeliella =Allionia incarnata CKl. Perianth a real rose-purple. Very beautiful, the cluster of 3 = 3 to 4 lines broad. A single flower is 1 1/2 to 2 lines broad. The cluster simulates a single fl. Anthers yellow. Perianth with the inner lobe reduced to a short entire rounded lobe. Stamens 4. Style one; stigma capitate, white (no. flesh-color). Trailing over ground. Involucral bracts 3, hairy-glandular, ovate |
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