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Los Gatos Creek, sw. c. 2300 ft. diameter. Rays 8,8,9,8. No. 20,230. Haplopappus acradenius var. bracteosus McMinn Erect bush 3 ft. h., rays none. No. 20,231. Eriodictyon tomentosum Bth. Colonies; shrubs 5 to 6 feet high. No. 20,232. Baccharis glutinosa Pers. 8 to 9 ft. h., bed of Los Gatos Creek. No. 20,233. Haplopappus acradenius ssp. bracteosus (Greene) Hall Many-stemmed shrub, dense, 5 ft. high. No. 20,234. Artemisia dracunculus L. 4 to 5 1/2 feet high; stems erect. No. 20,235. Cordylanthus rigidus (Bth.). Forming a dense colony of a half-acre, 3 to 4 feet high. Specimens taken in four sections from top
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to bottom in as many folders, labeled "a", "b," "c", "d." No. 20,236. Cordylanthus rigidus (Bth.) Jepson. With 20,235.
--I stop under a Quercus lobata tree, on a little bench, half-way up the canon [canyon] for a mid-day lunch. I have forded the stream nearly twenty times to this point. Going up to the divide (headwaters of branch of San Benito River) I ford it 15 times more. I keep no count; but one is really moving up the stream bed and leaving it for only short distances on a hillslope or bench and then back to the canon [canyon] bed again.
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