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Round Meadow to Long Meadow. Tulare Co. 8000 ft.
- Left from Round Meadow at 2:45, July 3. Reached Long Meadow and lost the trail out of it. A meadow is a dandy place to lose a trail. Did not recover it until nearly sundown. So camped. Mosquitoes here as everywhere else. The air is very cold; our tins are ice cold; but we do not feel as cold as at Round Mdw. beneath the Sequoias. Coming across Long Meadow Hot Haste insisted on jumping a rivulet that he might have stepped across (as usual) and then Sierra "pulled back to beat the band"; things were very lively for a space but the Diamond Cinches held and
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July 8, 1900
Sierra followed suit , i.e. jumped (as usual). The Collinsia No. 704 is common all through the forest; it seems to range above the other one, No. 621_. -_Tamarack galore here at Long Mdw.
Long Meadow to Wolverton Creek: Chinquapin abundant. Cerasus emarg. June Berry. This is the Fourth of July. We celebrate by hunting trails, finding them Mimulus Lewisii _ by mt-torrent infl. Mimulus primuloides in moist springy places.
-_Mimulus nanus H.oH. no. 699. See p. 16 ante. -__ Collinsia childii Parry.
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