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57_26 Mt. Tamalpais, Nov. 2, 1936. fissuring longitudinally after the fashion of C. cuneatus. --Cont. from p. 22, at _. I dig at it a bit. Its horizontal stems strike root probably but there is _no_ evidence that the stems come from an old root crown. No. 17,975. Eriogonum caninum (Greene) Munz Near Bootjack Camp. No. 17,976. Hemizonia luzulaefolia DC. Near San Quentin. Climate and Rainfall The fall has been marked by calm dry weather - only one brief rain-storm since July 1. The quality of the weeks has been "Indian Summer", clear mild sunny days without air-movements. Here latter-by for some weeks we have had fog--much fog- lately, often very dense and not going out to sea all day. On one of the days when it was very dense, Saturday, Nov. 28, 1936, one of the men in the club said that it had been blowing a high gale all that day in the Lower Sacramento Valley, from the north west. The air current poured in from the ocean through the Bodega Gap. At Berkeley it was dead calm!! |
57_27 Berkeley, Nov. 17, 1936. --Came to call at this moment one Hastings, a young fellow, National Park Service. He said: "I have been commissioned to make a map of Cactus [transcriber's note: looks here as though the original "Cactuses" was erased, which would make the following make sense] and I cannot find any book that shows distribution." As I questioned him it appeared that he meant "Cactus" and not Cactaceae which seemed probable at first. I then explained that the problem could be simplified by understanding that there were no Cactaceae of any kind in the Eastern Hemisphere, only in the Western Hemisphere. He had no notion of this and said so. By repeating Cactus and Cacti many times in the proper way I tried to impress upon him the singular and the plural signification of these words. Next I explained to |
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