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Soda Canon
Upper Kern region

says no; Black Fern poisons sheep by the hundreds if they get to eating it - but sheep only. What is Black Fern_ I ask. All sheep men in this region know it. John Broder knows what it is. If Funston were alive a great deal of information could be had from him. He died two years ago.
Noted several fine trees of Pinus monticola with thick clusters of cones.
Friday, Aug. 10.
Struck up stream from the camp in the Big Arroyo at 7:00. After about 2 miles we turned up over a rocky
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_ = Pellea ornithopus. See p. 165
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Aug. 10, 1900.

hill, and entered Soda Canon; - Soda Creek, marking the place where we turned up. Travelled Soda Canon for 3 miles; here are several meadows that are judged most dangerous. I collected nearly everything in there meadows. We lead our animals and did not allow them to either eat or drink until we got to the headwaters of the Little Kern.
Poison Meadows: noted:
Gilia, opp. leaved sp. white phlox like fls. coll. Kearsarge Mill.
Mimulus primuloides.
Yarrow - same as coll. cottonw.
Fragaria - same as coll. West Vedette.
Arnica chamissonis
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