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Field Notes, 1912, Part 1_038

Item

Raymond J. Pool Field Notes and Records
Title
Field Notes, 1912, Part 1_038
Alternative Title
Field Notes, 1912, Part 1
Date
1912
Creator
Raymond J. Pool
Description
Raymond J. Pool Field Notes
Identifier
120712
Transcription
38 26 former university people. In the afternoon Mr. S and I rode out the Sand Hills which begin about three miles north of town. This area of hills as an exterior of the Sand Hill region farther east. The toungue extends many miles farther west. The hills are about as farther east altho mot so many high hills or so many blowouts as farther east. There is scarcely any bunch grass here, but the Yucca - Muhlenbergia association is here developed about as it is in Garden Co. ​ to the eastwards. On some of the hills Yucca is very thick. Andropogon hallii is very common here as a copious species. Calamovilfa longifolia is also abundant here. Stipa comata is the most abundant species, covering extensive ares on the lower slopes in mixture with Bouteloua. The meadows in valleys here are typical, and, with the presence of Dodecatheon , resemble those about Oshkosh . Dodecatheon is very thick in some of the meadows all along betweeen Angora and Bomner . Among scecordary species the following are the commonest: Galpinsia , Lineorium montanum , Penstemon albidus , Anagalus lambertii , Astragalus microlobus , Orophaca sericea , Lathyrus omatus , Phaca longifolia , and Psoralea micrantha , as much is often controlling in very sandy areas. Prunus besseyi is not abundant and is little P. melanocarpa . There is
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