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4_138 Hockett Trail I notice that a great many of the vernal desert annuals which are standing dry up. Between the "sage-bushes" have dried persistent corollas. I wish that [mar cescent] - persistent meant this for them. Corollas are not withered but dried in shape. Is not this very characteristic of desert plants? Our mules are very keen of ear and take mighty good care of themselves. May not their sensitive ears be a reversion to the high development in the wild ancestor? |
4_139 July 20, 1900. Arrived after a very tedious march at Big Cottonwood meadow. It was in reality a march up the eastern wall of the Sierra, the trail reaching 9000 or 10000 feet between the Little & Big Cottonwoods. This walk revealed to me that I had hurt my lungs on the long chase after the mules. I could go but a few feet without stopping to rest. When I reached 9000 feet, however, some new plants came in and these so interested me that I forgot that I was tired! At least for the time being. What a queer creature is a botanist. |
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